Tcl Developer Guide

This Tcl Developer Guide is for those writing programs in Tcl

Contents

Embedding vs. Extending

Extending Tcl is generally recommending over embedding Tcl.

extension developer guide

How to embed Tcl in C applications

package developer guide

The Art of Tcl

Best Practices

Tcl Style Guide

Tcl style discussion

Design patterns in Tcl

Tips for writing quality software

Software creation with Tcl/Tk

An overview of the process of creating a program.

A critical mindset about policy

Guidelines for writing big Tcl applications

A critical mindset about policy

A discussion about what belongs in the scripting language, and what belongs in the lower-level implementation

See Also

Are there any recommendations or requirements regarding what order code appears in a Tcl program

Developing Tcl with Batteries Included

What other kinds of changes will a developer have to make when moving from Tcl 8.4 to 8.5?

Developing for a Single Platform

test-driven development

How to change a running system

Meta Programming

Basics

Determining the Application's Root Directory

Determining whether the script is the main script of the program

Techniques for reading and writing application configuration files

Issue Tracking

See Issue Tracking.

Documentation

How to Write Quality Documentation

Source Code Management

See source code management

Foreign Interfaces

How to invoke a C function from Tcl

How do I use the Tcl C API?

Embedding Tcl

How to embed Tcl in C applications

Deployment

See deployment.

Tools

Critcl

Category Dev. Tools

GUI Building Tools

IDE

ODIE

a toolbox for assembling private collections of Tcl and C code

integrated development environment

Source Documentation Tools

The Simple Development Library

TIL

Tcl ICE Library. SEH says, "This combined with The Simple Development Library may add up to one of the most sophisticated development toolsets currently available for scripting/coding anywhere."

Tcl Editors

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