There are a lot of articles in http://wiki.tcl.tk/4149%|%Category GUI%|%.

This page aims to be a "newbie-friendly"-pointer to the most essential topics.

[Tcl] - the "tool-command-language". All the elements for programming (but console-only).

[Tk] - the "toolkit", an extension to tcl, for graphics, GUI, etc.

   * General
   * Layout:
   ** [Frame]
   ** Layout-Managers ([place], [pack], [grid])
   * [Text]- and [entry] - Fields
   * Buttons:
   ** Push-[Button]s, 
   ** [checkbox]es 
   ** [radiobutton]s
   * [Canvas]
   * graphic elements:
   ** [text], [line], [rect], [oval], image, etc.
   ** [Label]s
   * [Menu]
   * Control:
   ** [bind]
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Pages:
   * [m+] - Simple menu-system
   * [Menus made easy]
   * Programs with a menu:
   ** [iKey: a tiny multilingual keyboard] - program with a tiny menu
   ** [Advent Wreath] - small menu, with help&about, and radio-buttons for options
   ** [Ad Break Timer]
   ** [Black Box]
   ** ...
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   * [Grid-Demos] - layouts arranged in a grid, done with pack and grid
   * [Simple Canvas Demo] - put text, lines, rect, curve on a canvas
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   * [Simple Entry Demo] - entry-fields for integers, calculate sum and product
   * [IP Calculator GUI] - entry-fields for IP-addresses / uses [ttk]
   * [Phone book example using Metakit] - short and simple "database" program: <<br>>Entry-fields for name and phone, metakit-textfile for storage, treeview with scrollbar to show the data.
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   * [7GUIs] - a sequence of mini-applications, each highlighting a useful GUI pattern in a short implementation

   * ...

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** See also **
   * Tk-Demos - forms.tcl : Simple entry-form for name, address, phone etc. <<br>>But it is hard to see "the useful code", with all the surrounding demo-code.
   * [TkDocs]

<<categories>>GUI | Tutorial