Tk(3)

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version 804.036 · 14 versions
, in alpine 3.23, alpine 3.24

🦋 NAME 🦋

okay so Tk is literally a graphical user interface toolkit for Perl 💖 this is the Tk(3) page from the perl/Tk documentation, and it’s basically the master map for the whole manual, iykyk.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the tiniest starter pack, no cap:

use Tk;
$top = new MainWindow;
MainLoop;

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

The Perl/Tk manual is split up into a number of sections — here’s the whole squad, bestie:

🧚 Introduction 🧚

  • Tk::overview
  • Tk::UserGuide

🌈 Tk Geometry Management 🌈

  • Tk::Adjuster
  • Tk::form
  • Tk::grid
  • Tk::pack
  • Tk::place
  • Tk::Table
  • Tk::Tiler
  • Tk::Wm

💅 Binding Events and Callbacks 💅

  • Tk::after
  • Tk::bind
  • Tk::bindtags
  • Tk::callbacks
  • Tk::Error
  • Tk::event
  • Tk::exit
  • Tk::fileevent
  • Tk::IO

🎀 Tk Image Classes 🎀

  • Tk::Animation
  • Tk::Bitmap
  • Tk::Compound
  • Tk::Image
  • Tk::JPEG
  • Tk::Photo
  • Tk::Pixmap
  • Tk::PNG

👑 Tk Widget Classes 👑

  • Tk::Button
  • Tk::Canvas
  • Tk::Checkbutton
  • Tk::Entry
  • Tk::Frame
  • Tk::HList
  • Tk::Label
  • Tk::Listbox
  • Tk::Menu
  • Tk::Menubutton
  • Tk::Message
  • Tk::Optionmenu
  • Tk::Radiobutton
  • Tk::Scale
  • Tk::Scrollbar
  • Tk::Text
  • Tk::Toplevel

🫶 Tix Extensions 🫶

  • Tk::Balloon
  • Tk::BrowseEntry
  • Tk::DialogBox
  • Tk::DirTree
  • Tk::DItem
  • Tk::InputO
  • Tk::LabFrame
  • Tk::Mwm
  • Tk::NoteBook
  • Tk::TixGrid
  • Tk::tixWm
  • Tk::TList
  • Tk::Tree

💜 Tk Generic Methods 💜

  • Tk::Font
  • Tk::send
  • Tk::tkvars
  • Tk::Widget
  • Tk::X11Font

🦋 User Interaction 🦋

  • Tk::DropSite
  • Tk::Clipboard
  • Tk::focus
  • Tk::grab
  • Tk::selection

🍓 Creating and Configuring Widgets 🍓

  • Tk::CmdLine
  • Tk::MainWindow
  • Tk::option
  • Tk::options
  • Tk::palette
  • Tk::Xrm

🧁 Popups and Dialogs 🧁

  • Tk::chooseColor
  • Tk::chooseDirectory
  • Tk::ColorEditor
  • Tk::Dialog
  • Tk::DialogBox
  • Tk::FBox
  • Tk::FileSelect
  • Tk::getOpenFile
  • Tk::messageBox
  • Tk::MsgBox

🌟 Derived Widgets 🌟

  • Tk::composite
  • Tk::configspec
  • Tk::Derived
  • Tk::mega
  • Tk::ROText
  • Tk::Scrolled
  • Tk::TextUndo
  • Tk::Reindex
  • Tk::Pane
  • Tk::ProgressBar

💀 C Programming 💀

this is the big C-programming roster, no skips:

  • Internals
  • pTk
  • 3DBorder
  • BackgdErr
  • BindTable
  • CanvPsY
  • CanvTkwin
  • CanvTxtInfo
  • Clipboard
  • ClrSelect
  • ConfigWidg
  • ConfigWind
  • CoordToWin
  • CrtErrHdlr
  • CrtGenHdlr
  • CrtImgType
  • CrtItemType
  • CrtMainWin
  • CrtPhImgFmt
  • CrtSelHdlr
  • CrtWindow
  • DeleteImg
  • DoOneEvent
  • DoWhenIdle
  • DrawFocHlt
  • EventHndlr
  • EventInit
  • FileHndlr
  • FindPhoto
  • FontId
  • FreeXId
  • GeomReq
  • GetAnchor
  • GetBitmap
  • GetCapStyl
  • GetClrmap
  • GetColor
  • GetCursor
  • GetFont
  • GetFontStr
  • GetGC
  • GetImage
  • GetJoinStl
  • GetJustify
  • GetOption
  • GetPixels
  • GetPixmap
  • GetRelief
  • GetRootCrd
  • GetScroll
  • GetSelect
  • GetUid
  • GetVisual
  • GetVRoot
  • HandleEvent
  • IdToWindow
  • ImgChanged
  • InternAtom
  • MainLoop
  • MaintGeom
  • MainWin
  • ManageGeom
  • MapWindow
  • MeasureChar
  • MoveToplev
  • Name
  • NameOfImg
  • OwnSelect
  • ParseArgv
  • Preserve
  • QWinEvent
  • Restack
  • RestrictEv
  • SetAppName
  • SetClass
  • SetGrid
  • SetVisual
  • Sleep
  • StrictMotif
  • TextLayout
  • TimerHndlr
  • Tk_Init
  • WindowId

🧚 Implementation 🧚

  • Tk::Eventloop
  • Tk::Menu::Item
  • Tk::Submethods
  • Tk::WidgetDemo
  • Tk::widgets

🧪 Experimental Modules 🧪

  • Tk::Common
  • Tk::SunConst
  • Tk::WinPhoto

🌍 Other Modules and Languages 🌍

  • Tk::Compile
  • Tk::Tcl-perl
  • Tk::X

🫡 AUTHOR 🫡

Nick Ing-Simmons

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

perl, wish(1).

Alternative Perl modules implementing the Tk toolkit: Tkx, Tcl::Tk.

okay that’s the whole Tk804.036 page from 2025-07-31 — mwah, go build something iconic 💅✨

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