E-Books →Mastering PerlTk Graphical User Interfaces in Perl

- 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. Nancy Walsh is the author of Learning Perl/Tk, and Steve Lidie wrote the Perl/Tk Pocket Reference as well as a series of Perl/Tk articles in The Perl Journal. Together, they have written Mastering Perl/Tk to be the definitive guide to Perl/Tk.