TCL/TK Pocket Reference [Paperback]

Paul Raines (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 15, 1998

The Tcl/Tk combination is increasingly popular because it lets you produce sophisticated graphical interfaces with a few easy commands, develop and change scripts quickly, and conveniently tie together existing utilities or programming libraries.

The Tcl/Tk Pocket Reference,a handy reference guide to the basic Tcl language elements, Tcl and Tk commands, and Tk widgets, is a companion volume to Tcl/Tk in a Nutshell.

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About the Author

Paul Raines is a physicist and scientific programmer at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center at Stanford University where he is part of a large collaboration studying CP violation (why charge and parity are not conserved in some particle decays). He is a huge advocate of scripting languages and has been using Tcl on various projects since 1992. He is also the coauthor of O'Reilly & Associates' Tcl/Tk in a Nutshell. When he can get away from the lab, Paul enjoys hiking, bridge, and soccer.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (December 15, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1565924983
• ISBN-13: 978-1565924987
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.2 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #547,885 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good if you like such things..., March 20, 2001

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Kevin B. Kenny (Niskayuna, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: TCL/TK Pocket Reference (Paperback)

If it's important to you to have a quick reference in paper form, then by all means this is the book for you. It's technically accurate. It is getting a bit out of date, but Tcl has an excellent track record for maintaining upward compatibility. You may miss out on new features, but you won't be led too far astray.

If, on the other hand, you're comfortable with browsing the manual on-line, then save your money. There's little in this book that isn't also in the on-line manuals that come with Tcl/Tk, and you can be certain that the on-line manual matches the Tcl/Tk release that you're using.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good reference, July 25, 2011

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Ken - See all my reviews

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This review is from: TCL/TK Pocket Reference (Paperback)

not for novice. good if you need a handy reference.

It's smaller and thinner than I thought.

I got a little bit disappointed when I got this book concerning waiting quite a long time to get it by amazon's tandard Int'l Shipping and found there is such a small book in the box.

However, after using it for a while, I found that just because it's small enough, I get to carry it around easily.

I think this is a good reference book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars I keep going back to Ousterhout, February 23, 2006

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Ray Salemi (Framingham, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: TCL/TK Pocket Reference (Paperback)

This reference is good if you are only looking for syntax or available options to a command you understand.

If you have questions about the way the commands work, or the concepts behind them (what is a list?) then you'll find that you keep going back to the larger books.

So I am currently in Ousterhout for most of my questions and then opening this infrequently to check syntax.

I think it could have had a more extensive index and I cannot see any order in the table of contents.