Version 23 of Visual Tcl

Updated 2006-04-07 14:32:04

The name Visual Tcl is, unfortunately, such an obvious one that it has been used by a few things.

Visual Tcl is one of a set of developer applications oriented towards easing the developing of the GUI portion of one's application.

See http://vtcl.sf.net/ for the application.

See http://sourceforge.net/projects/vtcl/ for download

[Add info about tricks for using vtcl, benefits, etc.]


Then, there is an ancient SCO toolkit known as Visual Tcl which had nothing to do with vtcl the graphical building tool.

It was a product/extension which created a Motif GUI interface, as well as an ASCII interface for CUI programs.

Book The Visual TCL Handbook, 1/e

A tutorial covering SCO's Visual Tcl can be found at http://www.computronics.be/courses/vtcl/CONTENTS.html .

This link appears broken as of 19 Apr 2005


http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/d/770 which talks about Visual Tcl,

o vtcl

        This list is for any discussions relevant to the use of or
        development of a graphically oriented Tcl development environment
        currently known as Visual Tcl.

        See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vtcl/ for subscription
        and archive info.

Clif Flynt in the Tcl chatroom on 2003-06-27: "I've reworked some vtcl output. The script performance can be improved a lot by using 'option add' instead of all the -font xx -fg yy options in the widget creations."


 What: Visual Tcl/vtcl (Allen)
 Where: http://sourceforge.net/projects/vtcl/
        http://vtcl.sourceforge.net/
        http://www.neuron.com/stewart/vtcl/  -- old link points to sourceforge links
        http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=285
        http://www.deakin.edu.au/%7Emattb/vtcl/
        http://www.jessikat.demon.co.uk/vtcl/
        http://www.ifconnection.de/%7Erjs/vtcl/
        http://www.ultra.net/%7Eeugene/mirror/vtcl/
        http://chaos.uark.edu/vtcl/
        http://www.fis.unb.br/jario/programacao.htm
        http://members.xoom.com/rpragana/tcltk/titulo.html
        http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
        http://www.kitware.com/vtkhtml/vtkdata/VTK_Linux_WWW/VTK-Linux-HOWTO.html
        http://merlin.inescn.pt/%7Equal/vTcl/vtcl-FAQ.html
        http://www.chez.com/fabiencoutant/
 Description: Application development environment written only in Tcl.
        Includes support for compund widgets, custom compund widget
        libraries, aliases, etc.
        Works on Windows, Macintosh and Unix (Tk 4.1 or newer).
        Macintosh version requires you to use Tk 4.2p1 or newer.
        Covered by the GNU general public license.
        Versions are being made available from the WWW page on a regular
        basis.  Sites with tutorials in English, Spanish, and Portuguese are
        listed as the last two sites.
        Currently at v1.6.0.
 Updated: 09/2001
 Contact:
          mailto:[email protected] (Christian Gavin)
          mailto:[email protected] (Damon Courtney)

 What: SCALD
 Where: http://www.cse.psu.edu/%7Evance/
 Description: School project to create a SPARC assembler interpreter.
        Uses Tcl/Tk and Visual Tcl.
 Updated: 07/1998
 Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Michael K. Vance)

 What: Visual Tcl/Tk (Bebber)
 Where: http://www.virtualbase.com/vtcl.html
 Description: This is a public project whose goal is to produce and
        make freely available a professional quality cross-platform
        visual design environment for Tcl/Tk.
 Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Douglas A. Bebber)

 http://www.larochelle-innovation.com/tcltk/223

RLH: Is Visual Tcl from http://vtcl.sourceforge.net still being maintained? It is a really nice UI builder.

LV Tthere has been mailing list discussions on the site. But I don't know how much maintaining has been done. But then, if it works properly, there won't be a need for a lot of fixes.


06/08/04 DC - Visual Tcl is not currently being actively maintained as the two developers who were working on it have moved on. Christian Gavin moved on to pursue other interests, and I lost interest in maintaining vTcl in its current form. I have, however, begun work on a rewrite of vTcl that will appear eventually as Tk Designer. I'm renaming and rewriting the code so as to get out from under the GPL license. This may happen a lot quicker if I can get the permission of the copyright holder (Stuart Allen) to change the license to BSD, which is my ultimate goal.


HJG 2005-11-11: It looks like work on vtcl has resumed: http://vtcl.sourceforge.net/?x=news

RLH Well what do you know!


TV Hopefully not adding confusion for some applications bwise is a visual way of using tcl.


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