| Perl/Tk is the marriage of the Tk graphical toolkit with Perl, the powerful programming language used primarily for system administration, web programming, and database manipulation. With Perl/Tk, you can build Perl programs with an attractive, intuitive GUI interface with all the power of Perl behind it. The book includes: An introduction to each of the basic Perl/Tk widgets and geometry managers; A dissection of the MainLoop, including how to use callbacks and bindings effectively; Coverage of the Tix widgets, an extended set of widgets that are a part of the standard Perl/Tk distribution; Working with images in Perl/Tk, including bitmaps, pixmaps, photos, and how to compose a compound image type; How to create custom mega-widgets in Perl/Tk, both composite and derived; Handling interprocess communication with Perl/Tk, both with standard Unix utilities (pipes and sockets) and with the send command designed for direct communication between Tk applications;
Developing your own Tk widget in the C language;
Examples of web applications written with Perl/Tk and the LWP library. The book also includes appendices on installing Perl/Tk, a complete quick-reference for each standard widget, and listings of all the extended examples in the book. | |
