Mastering Perl/TK by Steve Lidie

Mastering Perl/TK by Steve Lidie

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Perl/Tk is the marriage of the Tk graphical toolkit with Perl, the powerful programming language used primarily for system administration, Web programming, and database manipulation. With this text you should be able to build Perl programs with an attractive, intuitive GUI interface.

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Mastering Perl/TK by Steve Lidie

Perl/Tk is the marriage of the Tk graphical toolkit with Perl, the powerful programming language used primarily for system administration, web programming, and database manipulation. With Perl/Tk, you can build Perl programs with an attractive, intuitive GUI interface with all the power of Perl behind it. Mastering Perl/Tk is the "bible" of Perl/Tk: It's not only a great book for getting started, but the best reference for learning the techniques of experienced Perl/Tk programmers. The first half of the book contains the basics on how to use Perl/Tk, and then branches out into advanced applications with a series of extensive program examples. The result is a book accessible for novices, and invaluable for experienced programmers ready to learn the next step in the elegant and effective use of Perl/Tk. The book includes: *An introduction to each of the basic Perl/Tk widgets and geometry managers *A dissection of the MainLoop, including how to use callbacks and bindings effectively *Coverage of the Tix widgets, an extended set of widgets that are a part of the standard Perl/Tk distribution *Working with images in Perl/Tk, including bitmaps, pixmaps, photos, and how to compose a compound image type *How to create custom mega-widgets in Perl/Tk, both composite and derived *Handling interprocess communication with Perl/Tk, both with standard Unix utilities (pipes and sockets) and with the send command designed for direct communication between Tk applications *Developing your own Tk widget in the C language *Examples of web applications written with Perl/Tk and the LWP library The book also includes appendices on installing Perl/Tk, a complete quick-reference for each standard widget, and listings of all the extended examples in the book. Nancy Walsh is the author of Learning Perl/Tk, and Steve Lidie wrote the Perl/Tk Pocket Reference as well as a series of Perl/Tk articles in The Perl Journal. Together, they have written Mastering Perl/Tk to be the definitive guide to Perl/Tk.
Steve Lidie has spent decades consulting, programming and administering systems from Apple, CDC, DEC, HP, IBM, Microsoft and SGI. Author of the Perl/Tk Pocket Reference , he currently manages Lehigh University's large scale scientific computing complex, and occasionally writes Tk aricles for The Perl Journal and PerlMonth. Nancy Walsh has been involved with Perl (and Perl/Tk) since 1996. She received a Computer Science degree from the University of Arizona in 1993, and currently works as a Principal Consultant for XOR, Inc. doing J2EE and Java work on various projects. Nancy has taught several Perl/Tk Tutorials at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference and is also the author of Learning Perl/Tk.
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ISBN 13 9781565927162
ISBN 10 1565927168
Title Mastering Perl/TK
Author Steve Lidie
Series O'reilly Ser
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher O'Reilly Media
Year published 2002-03-05
Number of pages 770
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