[Arjen Markus] (10 june 2005) With the Tcl tutorial getting mature, it is time to do the same for Tk, IMO. This page is meant to record the structure/contents of such a tutorial.

[RLH] If you need any Windows side-of-the-house screenshots, let me know.

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Introduction: what is Tk? Include a small example that shows the flavour of Tk programming - something like:
    * Create three widgets: label, entry and pushbutton
    * Use [[grid]] to put them in the main window
    * Print the variable connected to the entry

Chapter 2: Overview of widgets

Chapter 3: Managing toplevels

Chapter 4: Menubars

Chapter 5: Selecting files, using message boxes, etc.

Chapter 6: Geometry management, also frames

Chapter 7: Using simple widgets

Chapter 8: Using scrollbars

Chapter 9: The text widget 

Chapter 10: The canvas widget

Chapter 11: Keeping your GUI alive

Chapter 12: Event handling
    * [Actions] would be cool to have here

Chapter 13: Colours and fonts

Chapter 14: Images

Chapter 15: Meta-widgets

Chapter 16: The option database

Chapter 17: Tk beauty farm - how to make your app pretty -- [RLH] shares his thoughts: This should weave all the way through the tutorial -- [EKB] could/should usability also be woven through the tutorial? -- [schlenk] I think some basic techniques for beautifying Tk apps should be mentioned in all appropriate places, but sure would be good to collect advanced techniques in a separate section. 

Examples, examples, examples...

... to be continued ...
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''[escargo] 14 Jun 2005'' - I have been reexperiencing the Joy of Tclets again, since the Tcl Plugin now can be
deployed on Firefox.  Perhaps the Tk tutorial can be made into an ''interactive'' web-based tutorial with ''working''
examples using the [Tcl/Tk Tclet Plugin].  Certainly, understanding the [pack] algorithm can be made easier by using
the interactive Pack Geometry Manager Demo[http://www.tcl.tk/software/plugin/contrib/packLet.html].

I suppose depending on the plugin could be a risk; if it isn't available, a very useful quality would be lost.
Still, there is much to gain by using it.

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