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Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk, Fourth Edition
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Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk, Fourth Edition

by Ken Jones, Brent Welch
June 2003
Intermediate to advanced
960 pages
20h 55m
English
Pearson
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Chapter 51. Tcl 7.4/Tk 4.0

This chapter has notes about upgrading your application to Tcl 7.4 and Tk 4.0 from earlier versions of Tk such as Tk 3.6. This includes notable new features that you may want to take advantage of as well as things that need to be fixed because of incompatible changes.

Porting your scripts from any of the Tk version 3 releases is easy. Not that many things have changed. The sections in this chapter summarize what has changed in Tk 4.0 and what some of the new commands are.

wish

The wish shell no longer requires a -file (or -f) argument, so you can drop this from your script header lines. This flag is still valid but no longer necessary.

The class name of the application is set from the name of the script file instead of always ...

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