Table of Contents

• Table of Contents
• 1 Introduction
  • The Examples
  • Further Information
  • Acknowledgements
• 2 Getting Started
  • 2.1 Our First Graphical Application
    • 2.1.1 Widgets
    • 2.1.2 Geometry
    • 2.1.3 Actions
  • 2.2 The Architecture
  • 2.3 Implementation
• 3 Widgets
  • 3.1 Toplevel Widgets and Widget Objects
  • 3.2 The Graphics Engine, Tickles, and Widget Messages
    • 3.2.1 The Graphics Engine
    • 3.2.2 Tickles and Widget Messages
    • 3.2.3 Translating Tickles
    • 3.2.4 Special Tickles
  • 3.3 Frames
    • 3.3.1 Relief Options
    • 3.3.2 Screen Distance Options
    • 3.3.3 Color Options
    • 3.3.4 Abbreviations and Synonyms
    • 3.3.5 Additional Tk Information
  • 3.4 The Widget Hierarchy
  • 3.5 Label Widgets
    • 3.5.1 Bitmap Options
    • 3.5.2 Font Options
  • 3.6 Images
  • 3.7 Messages
• 4 Geometry Managers
  • 4.1 Widgets and Parcels
  • 4.2 The Packer
    • 4.2.1 Side Options
    • 4.2.2 Padding
    • 4.2.3 Anchors
    • 4.2.4 Filling and Expansion
  • 4.3 The Grid Geometry Manager
    • 4.3.1 Padding
    • 4.3.2 Span Options
    • 4.3.3 Sticky Options
    • 4.3.4 Weight Options
  • 4.4 Using Anchors for Widgets
• 5 More Widgets
  • 5.1 Buttons and Actions
  • 5.2 Checkbuttons, Radiobuttons, and Variables
  • 5.3 Querying Tickle Objects
    • 5.3.1 Querying Configuration Options
    • 5.3.2 Querying Widget Parameters
  • 5.4 Menus, Menuitems, and Menubuttons
  • 5.5 Events
    • 5.5.1 Event Patterns
    • 5.5.2 Event Arguments
    • 5.5.3 Invoking Actions
    • 5.5.4 Appending and Deleting Event Bindings
  • 5.6 More on Actions: Listeners
  • 5.7 Entries and Focus
  • 5.8 Scales
  • 5.9 Listboxes and Scrollbars
  • 5.10 Toplevel Widgets and Window Manager Commands
  • 5.11 Selecting Files
  • 5.12 Example: Help Popups
    • 5.12.1 Displaying Help
    • 5.12.2 The Listener Class
    • 5.12.3 AttachHelp
    • 5.12.4 Using Help Popups
• 6 Canvas Widgets
  • 6.1 Getting Started
  • 6.2 Example: Drawing Bar Charts
  • 6.3 Canvas Tags
    • 6.3.1 Event Bindings
  • 6.4 Example: An Animated Time Waster
• 7 Text Widgets
  • 7.1 Manipulating Text
  • 7.2 Text Tags and Marks
  • 7.3 Example: A ToyText Browser
• 8 Tools for Tk
  • 8.1 Dialogs
  • 8.2 Error Dialogs
  • 8.3 Menubars
  • 8.4 Handling Images
• A Data and Program Fragments
  • A.1 Getting Started
  • A.2 More on Widgets
  • A.3 Text Widgets
• Bibliography
• Index