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One of the best reasons to attend the Tcl conference is the
tutorial track. These sessions are presented by Tcl experts -
people who write the packages, write the books, and
develop applications on a daily basis. They share their
knowledge of Tcl/Tk and the practical experience in developing large,
robust applications. Whether you're new to Tcl or experienced,
these sessions will help you develop your projects more quickly.
Free Tutorials
This year we'll be offering FREE tutorials Monday and Tuesday
evenings. These will be 1-2 hour lectures on special topics.
Anyone is welcome to attend the evening lectures, whether they
are a member of the conference or not.
Tutorial Schedule
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Optimizing and Debugging Tcl/Tk
( Clif Flynt ) |
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Every application needs to run faster or have some little glitch
fixed.
Tcl's strongly interactive nature and introscpection tools make it a
very easy language to optimize and debug.
However, Tcl lends itself to some debugging techniques that are not
direct analogues to those in other languages.
Clif will discuss simple tricks to optimize your applications and
how to use trace, info and other introspection commands.
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Debugging with TkCon
( Jeff Hobbs ) |
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TkCon is one of the strongest tools for debugging your applications.
Jeff will show you how to use tkCon for more than just attaching
an interactive session to running code.
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Advanced Tcl: Dicts, Packages, Namespaces, TclOO
( Clif Flynt ) |
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Clif will describe some of the newer Tcl features including the
dict data structure and namespace ensembles as well as
describing how to modularize your scripts with simple
procedures and the source command to using namespaces and packages.
The class will also cover techniques for separating GUI code from
business-rule code including using the bind command and variable tracing,
to bind actions to events. Examples include a Tower of Hanoi game
and a Nuclear Reactor simulator.
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Web Services with TclHttpd
( Gerald Lester ) |
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The TclHttpd server is one of the big secrets in the HTTP world. It's
stable, extensible, easily embedded in hardware or software, and
includes a set of facilities other http servers don't have. Gerald Lester
explains how to get the most out of a very versatile package.
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Building User Interfaces with Tk I
( Ken Jones ) |
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With remarkably little code, you can add a full-featured GUI to
your application that will have a platform-native appearance on Windows,
Unix, and Macintosh. In this course you'll explore all the Tk interface
components, learn how to modify and extend their behaviors, and see how to
put them together into complex multi-window applications.
The two sessions will complement each other, introducing basic techniques
in the first session, and more advanced techniques in the second.
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Critcl: Embedding C in Tcl for Fun and Profit
( Steve Landers ) |
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One of Tcl's strong suits is the ability to merge C and Tcl code
to make an application that's fast to develop and fast to run.
The C Runtime in Tcl package (CriTcl) lets you embed without
learning about the Tcl internals.
Steve will explain how to get the most out of this tool.
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Building User Interfaces with Tk II
( Ken Jones ) |
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With remarkably little code, you can add a full-featured GUI to
your application that will have a platform-native appearance on Windows,
Unix, and Macintosh. In this course you'll explore all the Tk interface
components, learn how to modify and extend their behaviors, and see how to
put them together into complex multi-window applications.
The two sessions will complement each other, introducing basic techniques
in the first session, and more advanced techniques in the second.
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Advanced Tk: GUI appearance
( Jeff Hobbs ) |
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There's a big difference between a quick and dirty GUI and a
good looking professional GUI. Jeff will explain the newer features
Tk has added to create a solid GUI you can be proud to send to a
customer, including:
- Controlling the toplevel
- Themed widgets (tile/ttk)
- 8.5 widget enhancements
- Subtle platform differences
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Contact Information
[email protected]
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