Tcl/Tk Overview
SoftWish is based on the Tcl8.0. interpreter. The following have been added:
- All the Softimage SAAPHIRE SDK calls have been added as commands.
- TkCon - an enhanced Console
- Tix - more widgets
SoftWish installs a stock Tcl 8.0 which can be run independently of SoftWish.
The SoftWish installation includes help pages (on NT) and man pages on Irix.
To use the help on NT double-click on tcl80.hlp. This file will be in
the /docs/winnt subdirectory of the location where you installed Tcl.
On Irix the man pages get installed into /usr/local/man.
There are many Tcl/Tk related websites. The following sites have links to most of them.
- Scriptics
- Tcl/Tk references on the web
- Tcl/Tk resources
- Sunscript
Tcl/Tk Books include:
- Tcl and the Tk Toolkit by John K.Ousterhout. Addison-Wesley Professional
Computing Series ISBN 0-201-63337-X
- Graphical Applications with Tcl and Tk, 2nd edition by Eric F. Johnson.
M&T Books ISBN 1-55851-569-0
- Practical Programming in Tcl and TK, 2nd edition by Brent B.Welch. Prentice
Hall PTR ISBN 0-13-616830-2
- Tcl/Tk Tools by Mark Harrison. O'Reilly ISBN 1-56592-218-2
- Effective Tcl/Tk Programming by Mark Harrison and Michael McLennan.
Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series ISBN 0-201-63474-0
- Tcl/Tk for Dummies by Tim Webster. IDG Books ISBN 0-7645-0152-6
There are thousands of lines of coding examples since almost of SoftWish is written
using Tcl. Almost all of the SI_LOCATION/3d/custom/Softwish subdirectories contain working
Tcl scripts. SoftWish also includes a number of commented example scripts which provide examples of how to use various tools and libraries.
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