Perhaps the commonest example that new Tcl programmers call to mind arises in dealing with long-running calculations. If the GUI is to be kept alive, then it must get some CPU resources, even if the long-running calculation doesn't relinquish them willingly.

Tcl/Tk: A Developer's Guide, authored by Clif Flynt is in its third edition (2012). It is now published by Elsevier .

With every other Tcl interpreter I've tried, up and down work like Ctrl+P and Ctrl+N (previous and next history command). With WindowsNT_kbsvq8.6-gui.exe, up and down move the cursor around the widget. APN: This has nothing to do with tclkit per se. Some changes in the Tk bindings made somewhere around the 8.6b3 time are the cause.

A Starkit is a single file packaging of Tcl scripts, platform specific compiled code and application data; designed to facilitate simple deployment of cross platform applications. The name comes from STandAlone Runtime.

The "gdiff" variant means to to use a GUI diff. The default output format is a "unified patch" (the same as the output of "diff -u" on most unix systems). Many alternative formats are available. A few of the more useful alternatives: --tk Pop up a Tcl/Tk-based GUI to show the diff--by Show a side-by-side diff in the default web browser-b

In 1995, shortly after the 3'd Tcl/Tk Workshop, held in Toronto, TclTutor was released on an unsuspecting populace. Since then, there have been over a million of downloads, 3 major rewrites of the GUI, a translation into Portuguese, a rework …

Tcl responds to leap seconds by speeding or slowing its clock by a tiny fraction for some minutes until it is back in sync with UTC; its data model does not represent minutes that have 59 or 61 seconds.

provides Tcl/Tk applications with access to EPICS control system channels. The second describes a set of Tk mega widgets that can be used to meet some control system needs irrespective of the underlying control system. The third describes a set of “EPICS aware” mega widgets that can be used to quickly build control system applications in ...

We describe a few interesting Tcl programming constructs that were key to this accomplishment, and how Tk and BLT made it possible for us to quickly deliver an impressive GUI.

Mar 30, 2025 · About Eskil Eskil is a graphical tool to view the differences between files and directories. It supports version management and patch files and has various preprocessing and alignment options to improve the display of tricky diffs.