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Mastering Perl/Tk (Paperback)

by Stephen O. Lidie (Author), Nancy Walsh (Author)

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Paperback: 746 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. (7 Jan 2002)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1565927168
ISBN-13: 978-1565927162
Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 17.5 x 5.6 cm

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Perl is well-known as a language for server-side scripting, but Mastering Perl/Tk shows Perl developers how to build cross-platform client applications with rich graphical interfaces. Tk stands for toolkit and was developed by John Ousterhout as a graphical extension to his Tcl scripting language. Perl/Tk fully integrates Tk into Perl, and supported platforms include Unix, Windows and Mac OS. This authoritative guide teaches Perl/Tk from scratch, but readers are assumed to have existing skills in Perl itself.

After a brief introduction, the authors get quickly into nitty-gritty detail. The starting point is geometry management, which controls the size and position of graphical widgets. The book goes on to describe the available widgets in depth, including chapters on buttons, listboxes, text widgets, scales, and more. Frames, windows and menus are fully explained. With the foundations in place, the second half turns to advanced topics such as creating custom widgets, binding to events, image manipulation, pipes and sockets, and Web programming. Appendices list options and default values for each widget, and give complete program listings for the examples.

Readers of Mastering Perl/Tk will be impressed by its attention to detail. The authors also demonstrate the power of the Perl/Tk combination, with examples such as embedding OpenGL output in a Tk window, or fetching and displaying live content from the Web. It is an excellent resource for any Perl developer.--Tim Anderson

Bill Cunningham, Linuxjournal.com, March 2002

If you want to learn more about GUI programming in Perl, Mastering Perl/Tk will be a valuable addition to your library.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An essential guide to developing GUIs with Perl., 16 Aug 2002

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Even sitting on the bookshelf, `Mastering Perl/Tk' looks a bit daunting - in terms of page count it's not far short of the Camel book itself - but it's rather different in terms of content. `Mastering Perl/Tk' is a ground-up guide to developing GUIs in Perl without having to resort to the horrors of Windows/X11 programming in C.

As you might expect, Perl/Tk is a set of Perl bindings for Tcl/Tk and the Tk.pm module provides a whole host of widgets which you won't find in a standard Tcl/Tk distribution, and the book covers them all in detail. Better still, from my point of view, prior knowledge of Tcl/Tk isn't a prerequisite although a basic grasp of the techniques is useful. Prior knowledge of Perl *is* essential, and this book is aimed squarely at intermediate to advanced programmers.

My current job requires me, amongst other things, to write GUIs for existing code, and I switched to Perl/Tk mainly to avoid having to hack on rather old and crusty Tcl code. Reading the book cover-to-cover isn't necessary and any competent Perl programmer will be able to get results fairly quickly just by looking up the bits s/he needs - I had a basic but functional GUI up and going inside a working day, for example, and a bit of extra hacking with the book as a reference guide had the whole thing looking rather more professional shortly after.

One of O'Reilly's better efforts, up there with the Camel Book and the Cookbook, and worthy of a place on any Perl programmer's bookshelf.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but the field is narrow., 4 Feb 2002

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This is a good book, but there are not many other alternative titles to choose from. GUI building is perl seems to be an area that has been ignored in part and this may help the change things.

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