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>Tcl/Tk to this day is the best tool to make GUI frontends for CLI applications. Why? Please elaborate. I've heard others say this, but would like to know more
by fuzztester 8mo ago
>Tcl/Tk to this day is the best tool to make GUI frontends for CLI applications.
Why? Please elaborate. I've heard others say this, but would like to know more.
>Besides that, in the past I used it in production for intranet database entry applications.
GUI apps?
- sprash 8mo ago> Why? CLI applications typically read text from stdin and write text to stdout. The tcl model of "everything is a string" makes exactly the right abstraction to create GUI frontends for CLI applications rapidly and keep them simple at the same time.
- fuzztester 7mo agothanks.
- pwg 8mo ago> Why? Please elaborate. Tk's GUI object model is sitting at a reasonable maxima between trivial to make use of vs. triggering the events necessary to make the GUI active. Small example. You want a button on your GUI that triggers a procedure called "process" when it is clicked, this is the code you need (if you are fine with the remaining defaults) (and assuming you used 'pack' as the geometry manager): button .process -text "Process Entries" -command process pack .process -side top And a fully active GUI button will now appear at the bottom of your Tk window, with a label of "Process Entries" and when you click it, a Tcl procedure named "process" will be executed.
- fuzztester 7mo agothanks.