The following is a guest post written by Jeff Hobbs (pictured), director of engineering for a company called ActiveState. ActiveState offers developer tools for writing, managing and distributing ...

In the first installment of this series, we mentioned three books as references for the use of the option database in its specific bindings to the Perl, Python, and Tcl languages (see the Resources ...

All script writers need to deal with textual data at one time or another. One of the most powerful tools for manipulating text in the free software world is the text widget found in the Tk graphical ...

The former second-class citizens of the programming world have leaped to the fore, changing the face of enterprise software development. With the rise of Web 2.0, scripting languages (also called ...

Tcl (Tool Command Language) and its GUI sidekick Tk (Toolkit) have been available in one form or another for more than a decade. John Ousterhout originally designed Tcl as a freely available embedded ...

The canvas widget in the Tk graphical user interface toolkit is a free software tool used to present graphical data. Like the Tk text widget, which I discussed in my previous article, the canvas ...