From: Daniel A. S. <st...@ic...> - 2003-04-30 04:28:32
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Carl, On Tuesday, Apr 29, 2003, at 21:13 Australia/Sydney, Carl Baltrunas wrote: > That is precisely what I am doing... asking the experts first... I'l > try the newsgroup next... thanks. > Thank you for a quick response. I believe you are one of the > experts, at least for the TclTkAquaBI releases. sure, it's just that I don't know anything much about PerlTk ... > I have installed perl 5.8.0 and PerlTk804.024 already and went > through the examples and > reviewed much of the Book "Mastering Perl/Tk", however using XDarwin > on a laptop which > only has a 1-button track-pad, so I am not sure if XDarwin windows > are very usable without > a 3-button or 2-button interface. I've also installed your > TclTkAquaBI-8.4.2.0 and was doing > an initial comparison when I thought to write to the mailing list > before I invest too much time > on one track or another. > > I will also look to see if the porters of the PerlTk distribution for > OS X are going that direction > once I identify who they are. Apparently they do have a package > install which was much > better than having to build it myself from source. (Still getting > used to doing that on OS X). please let the tcl-mac list know if you learn anything, so that we can pass it on when this question arises again in the future... > I will keep an ear out for messages on the tcl-mac mailing list, but > may not upgrade with each revision > at least until I feel comfortable making the updates. I see an > ANNouncement today from you > about some updates, so I will have to look at that in the next week > or so. these were really more for specific sub-packages, if you don't use them you probably don't need the updates. >> In general, IMHO tcl is much easier to learn than Perl and has great >> online resources in the wiki >> http://wiki.tcl.tk >> and >> news:comp.lang.tcl >> so it may be easier than you imagine to get something off the ground >> using just Tcl/Tk... > > I will check these out. Any recommendations on documentation? Is the > online information enough to > get going or should I get one of the O'Reilly books on Tcl before > diving in to learning Tcl-Tk? I have learnt most of what I know about tcl/tk from the manpages which are really quite good; if you want a book, Welch is very good, and a new edition is on the way (c.f. comp.lang.tcl where this was discussed recently) http://www.beedub.com/book/ See the wiki for other book ideas: http://mini.net/tcl/book Cheers, Daniel -- ** Daniel A. Steffen ** "And now for something completely ** Dept. of Mathematics ** different" Monty Python ** Macquarie University ** <mailto:st...@ma...> ** NSW 2109 Australia ** <http://www.maths.mq.edu.au/~steffen/> |