Chapter 23. Tk Fundamentals
This chapter introduces the basic concepts used in the Tk graphical user interface toolkit. Tk adds about 45 Tcl commands that let you create and manipulate widgets in a graphical user interface. Tk works with the X window system, Windows, and Macintosh. The same script can run unchanged on all of these major platforms.
Tk is a toolkit for programming graphical user interfaces. It was designed for the X window system used on UNIX systems, and it was ported later to the Macintosh and Windows environments. Tk shares many concepts with other windowing toolkits, but you do not need to know much about graphical user interfaces to get started with Tk.
Tk provides a set of Tcl commands that create and manipulate widgets. A widget ...
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