Perl/Tk Pocket Reference (Paperback)

by Stephen Lidie (Author)
Key Phrases: header display item, approximate bounding box, listbox widget, Other Perl, Other Standard Widgets, The Canvas Widget (more...)

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Product Description
The Perl/Tk Pocket Reference is a companion volume to Learning Perl/Tk, our complete tutorial that shows how to use Perl/Tk to build graphical, event-driven applications for both Windows and UNIX. With Tk, Perl programs can be window-based rather than command-line based, with buttons, entry fields, listboxes, menus, scrollbars, balloons, tables, dialogs, and more. This small book is a handy reference guide geared toward the advanced Perl/Tk programmer. The Perl/Tk Pocket Reference describes every Perl/Tk graphical element, including general widget and variable information, callbacks, geometry management, bindings, events, and window management, as well as composite widget, font, and image creation and manipulation commands.

About the Author
Steve has developed insurance and accounting systems, device drivers (plotters, digitizers, multiplexors, and Arpanet IMPs), word processors, text editors, and system analysis, performance, and monitoring tools. With decades of computing experience, he provides high-level programming and consulting on applications, network management and configuration, file backup, data migration, user interfaces, and operating systems from vendors such as Apple, CDC, DEC, HP, IBM, Microsoft, and SGI. Steve currently programs and manages Lehigh's large-scale scientific computing complex, and occasionally writes Tk articles for The Perl Journal.

Product Details

• Paperback: 103 pages
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. (November 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1565925173
• ISBN-13: 978-1565925175
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #515,063 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

• This item is part of The O'Reilly Pocket Guides Series.

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Built for Small Trousers, January 14, 1999

By	Jack Maturin - See all my reviews

While desperately hanging on for Mr O'Reilly's 'Learn Perl/Tk', I needed another fix of Perl and up popped this microscopic manual. For such a fantastic language, possibly the basis of all future non-web GUI development, there is a surprising lack of material out there on Perl/Tk, but this book does sterling work to plug that perldoc gap. As an Oracle DBA on Solaris, I now have more GUI database access tools than you can shake a slider at, and most have arisen from my scavenging of ./demos/widget, 'Advanced Perl' and this tiny reference. Once you get the hang of the foreshortened syntax, it's good to be able to flick from widget to widget without trawling through heavy indexes. I do have two complaints though; one, this pocket reference could've contained far more on 'Tiler', 'Table' and a few of the other more esoteric widgets - you could double the size of this book, and still fit it in an ant's lunchbox; two, if Mr O'Reilly delays the release of 'Learn Perl/Tk' again, I'm going to have to learn super Visual Basic J++ on Windows 98 and to hell with the consequences :-). Seriously though, this pocket reference has saved me hours of tracking down camera-shy Perl/Tk FAQs, and if you don't lose it through a small hole in your trousers, it may do the same for you. Top work.

4.0 out of 5 stars Effective reminders, August 22, 2008

By	William Shakespeare "The Bard" (Columbus, OH) - See all my reviews

As quick references go, the organization is pretty good. Covers pretty much all you need to remember the syntax and keep you going through those long nights of programming frenzies.