Version 302 of Applications in Tcl and Tcl/Tk

There is such a strong growth of full applications in Tcl and (especially) Tcl/Tk, or Tcl with other extensions, that an interactive facility such as that provided here on The Tcler's Wiki is needed for authors to add their own categories and links to the homepages for their applications. Feel free to add categories to those already existing. Please keep descriptions brief, and always link to a download site at a minimum, but preferably to the homepage for your application.

See Extensions for Tcl and Tk for a catalog of extensions.

Setting the size of images

Is there a way to set the size of images? They seem to show up at their natural size, which is not always good, but I at least am not eager to have to create an additional version of an image just for this page.

Also, this page has gotten big enough that navigating is a bit of a pain. Is there a way to create a category index at the top of the page? WJP

KJN Yes, some of the images are far too big for the page. A shrunken image, with a link to a separate Wiki page with the full-size image, would be much better.

Also, the applications that have dead links, or have not seen development since Tcl 7.6, could be moved to another page, such as Applications in Tcl and Tcl/Tk -- Old. Anyone who still uses or cares about these applications can always move them back ;-)

At least one application was listed twice - it is good to list them in alphabetical order within each section!

Applications in Tcl and Tcl/Tk -Audio-

Browsers and Web Resource Clients

CD Writers

WISH CD-Writer is a simple Tcl/Tk front end to mkisofs (for creating CD images), cdrecord (for writing data CDs), and cdrdao (for writing audio CDs).

         http://www.geocities.com/pa_mcclamrock

Chat and Instant Messaging

Alvaro's Messenger - aMSN is a free open source MSN Messenger clone. Certainly one of the most popular Tcl/Tk applications out there.
Potato MUSH (MUD) Client - A telnet-type client for connecting to MUSH/MUD/MOO/etc games, written in Tcl/Tk and using Iwidgets. See the page for a long list of features.
TkMOO-light [L1 ] A MOO/MUD/etc. client with xmcp support and a well-documented plugin interface.
Coccinella Tcl/Tk Jabber client, whiteboard and much more

         http://hem.fyristorg.com/matben/

TiK is a pure Tcl/Tk application for AOL Instant Messaging

FW: specifically, TiK is AOL's "TOC" gateway system for AIM

TiK also takes plugins written in Tcl namespaces, either enhancing the basic application, or adding entire functional features. While it has gotten great response in the UNIX community, many Windows users have also begun to enjoy its flexibility and features.

FW: it warrants noting that AOL was the original developer of TiK, but since mysteriously abandoned it. This is one of those few Tcl applications made by a major company.

         http://tik.sourceforge.net/
         http://tikpkgs.sourceforge.net/
         http://gtcs.com/tik/

OpenVerse visual chat environment

         http://www.openverse.com/

Tkabber Tcl/Tk powerful Jabber client

         http://tkabber.jabber.ru/

tkirc - Tcl/Tk multi-window IRC client using ircII and variants in daemon mode for telecommunications back-end. Hardy and powerful.

         http://www.north.de/~atte/tkirc/  -- dead link
         http://packages.debian.org/stable/net/tkirc  -- v1.202 source is in Debian Stable

tkirc2

         http://www.netsplit.de/tkirc2/

XiRCON - IRC client for Windows

         http://www.xircon.com/ -- dead link
         http://ahnberg.pp.se/xircon/xirc10b4.exe -- mirror
 See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XiRCON - last version was 1.0beta4 (1997).  Development has ceased.

zircon - Pure Tcl and very impressive

         ftp://catless.ncl.ac.uk/pub/zircon.tar.gz

telemaco - Talk-alike chat program in Tk (you see every keystroke while the remote user types), with shared blackboard.

         http://wiki.hping.org/144

Clipboard Management

Communications Controls

modemtcl

         http://www.45.free.net/~vitus/software/tcl/modemtcl.html

Database Front Ends and Complete Facilities

pgaccess MS-Access knock-off for PostgreSQL

         http://www.pgaccess.org

pgtclsh and pgtksh Tclsh and Wish for PostgreSQL, part of the normal distribution. This is a high-end open-source database.

         http://www.postgresql.org/docs/

libpgtcl has also been separated from the main core. This is the client side Tcl binding to PostgreSQL.

         http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pgtcl/projdisplay.php

WISH List: a simple, moderately powerful list manager for home and small office use

        http://www.geocities.com/pa_mcclamrock

Desktop Environments and Managers

FileMan

 What: FileMan
 Where: http://www.bongo.demon.co.uk/fileman/ (Project moved, but website still live.)
 Description: File Manager with multi-window views, drag and drop,
 private trashcan, event logging, configurable menus, file types,
 double click operations, toolbox, button bar, security,
 file splitting, file encoding/decoding/compression/spell checker/
 word counting, file copy/move/deletion/viewing/editing/sorting,
 program launching, archive creation/extraction, configurable
 icons, intelligent links, progress meter and clock,
 tested on AIX/UNIXWARE/UPUX/LINUX,
 Updated: 11/1997
 Contact: mailto:[email protected]

FileManager: a highly configurable Tcl/Tk File and Session manager

         http://www.cmbi.kun.nl/~schaft/FileMan/fileman.html

filerunner - File manager for Unix; is easy to use and feature rich.

NameFind - File search tool for Mac OS X.

      Where: http://www.codebykevin.com/namefind.html

NeXT-style file manager

 Where: http://de.geocities.com/ulf_jasper/ulfm/ulfm.html by [Ulf Jasper]
 Screenshot: http://de.geocities.com/ulf_jasper/ulfm/screenshot.gif

Not A Commander (nac)

 What: Not A Commander (nac) - alpha software
 Where: http://nac.sf.net/ 
 Description: Yet another file manager modled after the Norton Commander.
 Tcl implementation of the geometry manager with menus based on
 it.
 Currently at version 1.0-SNAP-030223 .
 Updated: 09/2001
 Contact: See the web site

Project Manager

 What: Project Manager
 Where: http://conero.lrn.ru/index_en.php
 Description: ProjMan is a full IDE for programming in TCL/Tk. It includes a
 project and file manager, a source editor with syntax highlighting
 and procedure navigation, a context-sensitive help system, etc.
 Requires Tcl, Tk, BWidget.
 Currently at version 0.3.7.
 Updated: 08/2006
 Contact: See web site

 What: sfm
 Where: http://www.naskita.com/linux/sfm/sfm.shtml
 Description: sfm manages files, has drag and drop support, can mount
        floppies, etc.
        Currently at version 1.4.0 .
 Updated: 09/2001
 Contact: http://www.naskita.com/linux/sfm/sfm.shtml

TkDesk

 What: TkDesk
 Where: http://tkdesk.sourceforge.net/
 Description: an [[incr Tcl]] based desktop and graphical file manager,
  with built-in text editor.  Allows an arbitrary number
  of file and directory browser windows, configurable file-specific
  popup-menus, history mechanism of directories, opened files,
  executed commands, etc., annotated files, ability to search for
  files by annotation, name, contents, size or age, trash can,
  drag and drop, disk usage of directories hierarchies,
  performs file operations in the background, bookmarks,
  configurable application bar, multi-buffer editor, sound support.
 Currently at version 2.0.
 Updated: 04/2004
 Contact: mailto:[email protected]

TkFileman

 What: TkFileman
 Where: http://www.mindspring.com/%7Ejoeja/programs.html 
 ftp://ftp.mindspring.com/users/joeja/tkfileman-0.5.3.tar.gz
 Description: A simple file manager that supports a GUI for tar/untar/gzip/
 gunzip of files, written in Tcl/Tk for Linux.
 Updated: 12/1999
 Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Joseph Acosta)

TkWorld

 What: TkWorld will replace your xterm
 Where: http://www.tkworld.org/   --- dead link 8/23/02
        http://www.tucows.com/preview/10044 has a copy

VuMan

 What: VuMan - man page viewer for Mac OS X
 Where: http://www.codebykevin.com/vuman.html

WISH Command Center and WISH Mini-Console

 Where: http://www.geocities.com/pa_mcclamrock
 Description: WISH Command Center is a simple program launcher written in Tcl/Tk.
              WISH Mini-Console is a simple Unix-type command-line console, with
              more versatile Tcl/Tk code editing features than standard Unix consoles have.

x-files

 What: x-files (UNIX only)
 Where: http://www.hut.fi/u/mkivinie/X-Files/
 ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/X11/contrib/utilities/
 http://pinhead.tky.hut.fi/%7Exf_adm/ (dead link)
 ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/X11/contrib/utilities/ (dead link)
 Description: X-Files is a graphical file management program for Unix/X.
 User-configurable action buttons supported.
 Easy configuration.  Transparent access to tar, zip, lharc,
 rar, rpm, compressed tar packages.
 Pop up menu for quick use of basic file operations.  Directory
 history, safe delete, short cut keys, context sensitive help.
 Requires Tcl 7.4 or newer, preferably a 3 button mouse, and
 Unix/X.  V2.00 beta 1 requires Tcl 8.0 or higher, and
 includes ftp support as well as other things.
 Note that the primary http site is only available during
 daylight hours at this time.
 Updated: 05/1999
 Contact: mailto:[email protected]
 mailto:[email protected]

E-Mail and Usenet News

Postilion is a knock-off of NeXTmail.app that has reached solidity for daily use as an E-Mail client. It uses Pine's C-Client library linked to a custom wish, for access to many styles of local, POP3 and IMAP4r1 mailboxes, in addition to having a good composer.

          http://www.postilion.org/

TkRat (Ratatosk) is an E-Mail client, the father of Postilion, above.

          http://www.tkrat.org/

tkbiff is a "you have mail" utility that is vastly improved over things like xbiff or xbiff++. Fast and wonderfully configurable. Handles any of file-access, POP, IMAP, SSL and runs on UNIX, Win, and Mac.

          http://expect.nist.gov/tkbiff

Blueline is a pre-scanner for pop3 email. Let's you preview the mail and very easily delete spam before it ever hits your email client. Checks for and announces new mail, Version 2.0 includes rule engine, spam percentages, colors, etc. Blue Line - spam filter

          http://www.tclbuzz.com/v0/blueline

uudeview/xdeview is the best tool for packing/unpacking the binary Usenet postings.

          http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~fp/uudeview/

E-Mail and Usenet News Site Management

Abuse Spam reporting and Whois client

          http://spam-abuse.sourceforge.net/
          Does it use Tcl?

Engineering Applications

AXIS A modern User Interface for EMC and EMC2

          http://axis.unpy.net/

Financial Management

Oklin PAM is a complete account manager

          http://www.oklin.com

TclTicker is a simple stock market ticker (and mailer)

          http://www.nyx.net/~tpoindex/tcl.html#Tclticker

TclStock is yet another stock ticker. It was inspired by TclTicker (above).

          http://mini.net/tcl/3517

Games

Mensch Høgørøk Nicht (Pachisi) [L2 ]
TkPoker is an IRC poker client (It's not a very good general IRC client so I didn't put it under Chat). Uses Tcl, Tk, and Iwidgets.

          http://tkpoker.sourceforge.net

Tickletankle a 2-player real-time aim and fire tank game. Inspired by Giovanni Tummarello's game Fractal Fighters.

          http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0225855/tickletankle/tickletankle.html

SCID (Shane's Chess Information Database)

 What: SCID (Shane's Chess Information Database)
 Where: http://scid.sourceforge.net
 Description: SCID is a (C++ extended) Tcl/Tk based Chess database program.

More screenshots at SCID.

TkSokoban is a tcl/tk version of the Sokoban puzzle game. It includes several advanced features including keyboard and mouse control, automatic path finding, unlimited undo, and "skinable" levels.

          http://www.jeffgodfrey.com/development.shtml

Spider Solitaire is a Tcl/Tk version of the card-game shipped with Windows XP. It has three difficulty settings (easy/1 suit, medium/2 suits, hard/4 suits), an undo feature, and a 'suggest move' feature.

See also Tcl/Tk games.

Graphics Manipulation and Painting

Arclabel bar code label design and printing.

          http://www.arcetiq.com

Finomaton comfortably draw and typeset finite state machines. Generates plain MetaPost output.

          http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0225855/finomaton/finomaton.html

tkpaint
ttkdraw

 What:  Tom's TkDraw
 Where: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~fine/Tech/ttkdraw.html

3D Modeling and Rendering

See Graphics With Tcl

Groupware

Minkowsky appointment/task/address manager

Linguistics

Minpair = generates a list of minimal pairs (words differing only in one segment) from a wordlist. This package consists of a C program that does the main work with an optional Tcl/Tk GUI.

   http://billposer.org/Software/minpair.html

WordGenerator - generates lists of possible words given information about syllable structure

   http://billposer.org/Software/WordGenerator.html

Network Management

Tnm/Scotty/TkInEd <= see descriptions, here on the Wiki
tkWhois - whois services client in Tcl/Tk

          http://www.callnetuk.com/home/mudh3dz/downloads.html -- dead link
          http://ftp.arnes.si/ftp/packages/tcl/sorted/packages-8.0/x11/tKwhois/0.98/ -- mirror

NuBell Netware client in Tcl/Tk

          http://masterjg.8m.com/nubell/

MIB Smithy - a visual GUI-based environment for designing and compiling SNMP MIB and COPS PIB modules, with several built-in SNMP management tools. Uses MIB Smithy SDK as its core (written in C++) with Tcl/Tk for the front end/GUI for portability as well as for user-scripted custom output formats.

          http://www.muonics.com/Products/MIBSmithy/

Operating System Management

Starfish - secure remote management of multiple systems

          http://www.starfishsystems.ca/software.php

Windows Inspection Tool Set - cross linked views of Windows system components.

          http://wits.magicsplat.com

Operating System Package Management

PortAuthority - a GUI for MacPorts

 What: PortAuthority - a GUI for MacPorts
 Where: http://www.codebykevin.com/portauthority.html
 Description: OpenDarwin's package ports, now known as "[Darwinports]", are written in Tcl.
              PortAuthority is a Tcl/Tk front end for MacPorts.

Ports Interface Browser (pib)

 What: Ports Interface Browser (pib) for FreeBSD
 Where: http://www.freebsd.org/ports/sysutils.html#pib-1.2
 Description: pib is a GUI shell for root/user level software installation on
 FreeBSD.  It uses tkswallow to manage multi-port building within the Tcl/Tk
 GUI, and gives a convenient browser to install/uninstall software.
 Updated: 01/2007

'Presentation Software'

EWIPE - a presentation tool that can also export to HTML

         http://www.jnet-jp.to/~sekisita/ewipe/index-e.html

SlideDraw - a presentation slide preparation package

         http://www.pragana.net/slidedraw.html

tkoutline - outline editor

         http://tkoutline.sourceforge.net

VebKlaso - a system for doing on-line real time presentations with images and sound. It is useful for presenting talks, courses and trainings, seminars, or conferences, requiring only the participant's browser and mp3 player.

         http://vebklaso.com/en/index.html

Regular Expression Tools

Redet - a tool for developing and executing regular expressions and other pattern matchers.

   http://billposer.org/Software/redet.html.

Science Applications

Alana a highly responsive Turing machine simulator with many examples and extensive documentation.

          http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0225855/alana/alana.html

Audela is a free and open source astronomy software intended for digital observations (CCD cameras, Webcams, etc.). Audela is fully customizable and reprogrammable using simple Tcl-Tk scripts. It enables not only camera control, but also full telescope control, locally or at long distance via a network. It has been written for both Windows and Linux platforms and is available in 6 languages (fr,uk,es,it,de,dk).

          http://software.audela.free.fr/english.htm

gpsfeed+ is a utility that feeds the PC with continuous GPS data. NMEA 0183 GPS sentences are sent to the application through a socket (TCP/IP) connection or a UDP multicast message. It also outputs the same NMEA data to a serial port of the PC. Polling applications can query the embedded lightweight http server to obtain gps data either in text form or as an XML data snippet.

          http://users.hol.gr/~dzach/gpsfeed/

LCD Editor

     http://www.tech-edv.co.at/programmierung/gplsw.html

NSCLSpecTcl (pronounced Spectacle) is a powerful nuclear event data analysis too. It provides an object oriented C++ framework for histogramming and other data analysis operations. The Tcl/TK scripting language is embedded as the program's command language, providing the user with a powerful, extensible, command set as well as the ability to build custom graphical user interfaces or extend existing ones. The Xamine display program provides SpecTcl with a powerful visualization component.

          http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/nsclspectcl

This project should not be confused with SpecTcl, which is a Tcl GUI builder and worth a look in its own right.

Ohm-O-Graph Ohm-O-Graph is a small tool for calculating resistance and tolerance of a resistor. Just a hack but you may find it useful, e.g. for educational purposes. It makes use of Tcl/Tk which therefore has to be installed on your machine. (The package for Tcl/Tk is named Wish and is installed on most Unix based boxes, including Linux. For Windows, it is available, too.)

    http://www.drni.de/niels/drni/xyz/ohmograph/

PhyloGrapher is a program designed to visualize and study evolutionary relationships within families of homologous genes or proteins (elements). It is a drawing tool that generates custom graphs for the given set of elements. In general, it is possible to use PhyloGrapher to visualize any type of interactions between elements you want.

          http://phylographer.sourceforge.net/

SaVi is satellite visualization software that lets you create, run, examine, and modify satellite orbits in two and three dimensions. Simulations of Iridium, Teledesic, Globalstar, GPS, and other satellite constellations are included. SaVi requires Tcl and Tk on a Unix system. SaVi works well with the 3D renderer Geomview. Geomview is optional, though recommended for its 3D rendering capabilities.

          http://savi.sourceforge.net/

Spin - Tk graphical front end for NMR spectrum simulator (Linux, Windows).

          http://www.sfu.ca/~gay/spin.zip

"tkGate" is a event driven digital circuit simulator with a tcl/tk-based graphical editor. TkGate supports a wide range of primitive circuit elements as well as user-defined modules for hierarchical design. The distribution comes with a number of tutorial and example circuits which can be loaded through the "Help" menu. The example circuits include a simple CPU, programmed to run the Animals game. For more information, check out the documentation. TkGate is free software provided with source code under the Gnu Public License.

          http://www.tkgate.org/

XCrySDen is a crystalline and molecular structure visualisation program, which aims at display of isosurfaces and contours, which can be superimposed on crystalline structures and interactively rotated and manipulated.

          http://www.xcrysden.org/

SMS and Cellular Communications

Cell Messenger an application to dowload, send,

receive, archive SMS messages from a mobile phone. Available as TclKit [L3 ], Windows [L4 ], and Linux [L5 ] starpacks.

SMS Reception Center an application to handle incoming SMS messages with a GUI to edit the filters which will be applied to each message and the actions which will be performed.

          http://www.sw4me.com/
          http://www.sw4me.com/SmsRc.zip (1.5M, Windows-only)

Software Development/IDEs

Alphatk - Shareware Tcl/Java/C/C++/TeX/LaTeX/HTML/CSS/etc programmer's editor, runs on Win/Unix/MacOS X.

         ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/pub/alpha/tcl/alphatk/
         http://www.purl.org/net/alphatk

Ased - ASED is an easy to use Tcl/Tk Editor written in pure Tcl/Tk using the BWidget Toolkit

         http://www.tcl-home.de/ased/asedhome.htm

bme - bitmap editor. Produces .xbm bitmaps for use on Tk widgets

        http://www.sfu.ca/~gay/bme.zip

BitKeeper - (commercial) software configuration management which uses Tk for all of its GUIs

         http://www.bitkeeper.com

bras Rule Based Command Execution (make-look-alike)

         http://developer.berlios.de/projects/bras/

ColorExplorer

     http://billposer.org/Software/ColorExplorer.html

CrowTDE An easy to use Tcl/Tk development environment (Tcl/Tk IDE).

     http://crowtde.sourceforge.net/
     http://crow.ee.stut.edu.tw/dai/crowtde/index.htm

fickle - the flex-like clone for Tcl

        http://tcl.jtang.org/fickle/

GNU Source Installer - a graphical installer for source packages; "We also welcome additional developers, especially people with a good background in Unix administration, Tcl, Tk, Expect, C, xlib, or Autoconf."

         http://www.gnu.org/software/sourceinstall/

IPAT-S Software Suite - a collection of supporting tools for the IPAT-S scenario scripting language (a mathematical modeling langauge). The interpreter is written in C/flex/bison, while the supporting GUI tools are all written in Tcl/Tk.

         http://ipat-s.kb-creative.net/

Komodo - well, not in Tcl, however for Tcl
RamDebugger - a Debugger/IDE for TCL/TK
smake - a make replacement in Tcl
SRCE - Simple Revision Control Engine, RCS based source code control and configuration management with Change Request Management built in.

         http://homepages.tesco.net/mick.helen/SoftMick/

TCL Developer Studio

         http://kakunin.chat.ru/tcldev/

Tcl Dev Kit.
tkcvs - graphical front end to CVS. Free.

        http://www.twobarleycorns.net/tkcvs.html
        http://tkcvs.sourceforge.net
        https://sourceforge.net/projects/tkcvs/

TKproE - a program development application for Tcl/Tk. Has extensive widget property editing, geometry management, canvas editing, namespace management and font management capabilities.

        http://tkproe.sourceforge.net

        Read the documentation at http://tkproe.sourceforge.net/TKproEdocs.pdf

tmk - a Tcl "make"

         http://tmk.sourceforge.net/

Tycho - extensible [incr Tcl] development environment

         http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/tycho/

visualCVS - graphical front end to CVS including baseline browser and powerful search utility, integration for emacs, gvim, ...

        http://www.scentech.ch/E/products/visualcvs/index.html

Visual Tcl (vTcl) - GUI Builder for Tcl/Tk and Tclets

         http://vtcl.sourceforge.net

XF - One of the original GUI builders for TCL/TK projects

        http://home.nycap.rr.com/dlabelle/xf/xf.html

See also Text Editors (below), IDE

Spreadsheets

Abacus for number crunching and what ifs in Tcl/Tk plus C++ Extensions

         http://tahoe.inesc.pt/~aml/abacus/abacus.html
         The old link at http://www-cad.eecs.berkeley.edu/HomePages/aml/abacus/abacus.html is dead

moodss - Modular OO Dynamic Spreadsheet

        http://moodss.sourceforge.net/
        See also the author's site at http://jfontain.free.fr/

Other spreadsheets and related tools are listed at spreadsheet; some are written in Tcl/Tk.

Text Editors

Tcl TextEdit is a simple and powerful texteditor

         http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcltextedit/

WISH Supernotepad text and HTML editor

        http://www.geocities.com/pa_mcclamrock/

Many more editors are listed at Tcl Editors; most are written in Tcl/Tk.
See also Software Development/IDEs (above)

Text Utilities

Hits! Graphical Text Browser (A GUI, multipattern, multi-window grep)

        This is the tool that was demonstrated at the Tcl/2k conference
        WIP session by [Roy Terry].
        http://tclbuzz.com/v0/hits

tkdiff Graphical diff

        This is a superb replacement for diff, a tool for comparing multiple text files.

xlit Transliteration tool

http://billposer.org/Software/xlit.html

Time-related Utilities

Stopwatch A simple but elegant stopwatch for hand-timing.

        http://expect.nist.gov/stopwatch

UML related Applications

 What: Ideogramic
 Where: http://www.ideogramic.com/
 Description: Tcl/Tk based UML tool which uses gestures to create diagram
        elements.
 Updated: 09/2001
 Contact: mailto:[email protected]

 What: voodoo
 Where: http://voodoo.sourceforge.net/
 Description: UML class diagram editor, written in Tcl/Tk and C++ .
        Tested on Linux, Solaris, and Windows.
        Currently at version 1.99.11 .
 Updated: 09/2001
 Contact: See the web site