| #577566 in Books | 1999-01-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.19 x.76 x7.00l, | File type: PDF | 373 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| An adequate reference|By Lucas B. Chaney|This book would be more aptly titled "Perl/Tk: Lengthy Appendices, with Introduction". As some other reviewers have noted, the book presents the Perl/Tk interface in repetitive and extrodinary detail. Unfortunately, no concise summary of all this information exists on 1 or 2 pages, so the book fails to hold a niche as a desk reference..com |By combining the rough-and-ready Perl language with the graphical user interface (GUI) capabilities of the Tk toolkit, Perl/Tk makes it easy to write event-based GUI applications quickly--once you know what you're doing. Learning Perl/Tk shows you
Learning Perl/Tk is a tutorial for Perl/Tk, the extension to Perl for creating graphical user interfaces. With Tk, Perl programs can be window-based rather than command-line based, with buttons, entry fields, listboxes, menus, and scrollbars. Originally developed for the Tcl language, the Perl port of the Tk toolkit liberates Perl programmers from the world of command-line options, STDIN, and STDOUT, allowing them to build graphical, event-driven applic...
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