magicsplat Files

**NOTE: This help file is no longer maintained. Use the online version at https://www.magicsplat.com/tcl-docs/docindex.html. **

This directory contains Windows CHM format help files containing a compilation of the documentation for Tcl/Tk and the most commonly used extensions and libraries.

WARNING:

When you open the file, you may see the table of contents pane but with an empty pane for the actual content. This is Microsoft's noble attempt to protect you from the big bad Internet. Right click on the downloaded file and on the General tab at the bottom you will see some gibberish about the file having been downloaded from the Internet. Click on the Unblock button next to that warning. That should do make the content visible.

Advantages over various other documentation sources are:

• Comprehensive, detailed table of contents. In particular, Tcl commands or C functions within a single page have individual entries. For example,

  • Subcommands, such as string match

  • Widget options, such as -activebackground

  • Options and specifiers, such as %f focus specifier all have their own entries.

• A combined and detailed index makes it easy and quick to locate specific information. For example,

  • Combined index - typing try in the index input box will show the the TWAPI as well as Tcl versions of try.

  • Index includes subcommands - string match links directly to the description of the match subcommand of the string command.

  • Entries for options, format or event specifiers, bindings etc. - %EE links to the description for this specifier in the clock command documentation. Similarly, <<MenuSelect>> will take you to the description for that event.

• Full text content search. Together with incremental lookup, this makes locating information very quick and easy.