Mega-widgets in Tcl/Tk: Evaluation and Analysis

WinACIF: A Telecom IC Support Tool Using Tcl/Tk

We discuss our use of Tcl/Tk to provide software support for telecommunications Integrated Circuits (ICs). Our Windows-based Advanced Computer Interface (WinACIF) program works in concert with reconfigurable hardware based on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to provide essential coordination in laboratory data collection and analysis of a device under test. WinACIF replaces several MS-DOS...

Extending Traces with OAT: An Object Attribute Trace Package for Tcl/Tk

Tcl supports variable traces, which associate arbitrary scripts with variable reads, writes and unsets. We developed OAT (Object Attribute Traces), a protocol for extending traces to attributes of arbitrary Tcl “objects.” We wrote several OAT-based extensions including TkOAT, which provides traces on attributes of Tk widgets and canvas items. The OAT protocol and derived extensions bring the be...

Enhancing Interfaces with Animated Widgets

Tcl/tk for a Personal Digital Assistant

This paper reports on the experience of providing Tcl/Tk for the ParcTab, a personal digital assistant built at Xerox PARC. The primary reason for supporting an extension language like Tcl/Tk for a PDA is to supply the same platform-independent infrastructure for user interface design and communication between the PDA and remote applications. The result was that Tcl/Tk enabled rapid prototyping...

The Tycho Slate: Complex Drawing and Editing in Tcl/Tk

This paper introduces the Slate package, which has been developed as part of the Tycho project at UC Berkeley. The Slate is layered over the Tcl/Tk canvas, and contains features that we believe to be useful for implementing complex graphical editing and visualization widgets. The rst key feature is the ability to de ne new item types in Tcl. The second is an implementation of the concept of int...