Tk 4.0p2 Release Notes

Table of Contents

  • What is Tk?
  • Support Policy
  • Installation Information
  • Silicon Graphics Legal Notice
  • Author's Notice(s)
  • Documentation Information

    • What is Tk?

    Tk is an X11 toolkit that provides the Motif look and feel and is implemented using the Tcl scripting language; this is version 4.0, patch level 2.

    Author's Notice(s):

    The author of this product is: John Ousterhout <john.ousterhout@eng.sun.com>

    Installation Information

    Tk includes these subsystems:
    fw_tk.sw.tk (default) Tk execution and development environments.
    fw_tk.man.tk (default) Tk's online manual pages (preformatted).
    fw_tk.man.relnotes (default) Tk's online release notes.
    fw_tk.src The complete Tk 4.0p2 software distribution from which this product was built.

    Installation Method

    All of the subsystems for Tk can be installed using IRIX. You do not need to use the miniroot. Refer to the Software Installation Administrator's Guide for complete installation instructions.

    Prerequisites

    Your workstation must be running IRIX 5.3 or later in order to use this product.

    Documentation Information

    Preformatted manual pages are installed by default; wish(1) is the command-line interface to Tk.

    The best way to get started with Tk is to read one of the introductory books on Tk:

    Tk and the Tk Toolkit, by John Ousterhout, Addison-Wesley, 1994, ISBN 0-201-63337-X

    Practical Programming in Tk and Tk, by Brent Welch, Prentice-Hall, 1995, ISBN 0-13-182007-9

    The official home for Tk and Tcl on the WWW is located at: http://www.smli.com/research/tcl. These Web pages include release updates, reports on bug fixes and porting issues, and pointers to many other Tk/Tk Web pages at other sites.

    There is a network news group comp.lang.tcl intended for the exchange of information about Tcl, Tk, and related applications. This newsgroup can be used both for general information questions and for bug reports. The author reads the newsgroup and attempts to fix bugs and problems reported to it.