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This section is designed in two parts: the first half (roughly) covers
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keyboard as a handy reference.
When trying to answer questions of the form ``how do I do blah'', it
is often best to find out how to do``blah'' in straight Tk, and then
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Python programmers can often guess at the correct Python command by
looking at the Tk documentation. This means that in order to use
Tkinter, you will have to know a little bit about Tk. This document
can't fulfill that role, so the best we can do is point you to the
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<LI>The authors strongly suggest getting a copy of the Tk man
pages. Specifically, the man pages in the
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</code> directory are most
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library and thus are not especially helpful for script writers.
<LI>Addison-Wesley publishes a book called
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Tk Toolkit
</em> by John Ousterhout (ISBN
0-
201-
63337-X) which is a good
introduction to Tcl and Tk for the novice. The book is not
exhaustive, and for many details it defers to the man pages.
<LI><span class=
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place to go when nothing else makes sense.
<p class=
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<dt><em class=
"citetitle"><a href=
"http://tcl.activestate.com/"
>ActiveState Tcl Home Page
</a></em></dt>
<dd>The Tk/Tcl development is largely taking place at
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<dt><em class=
"citetitle"><a href=
"http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/020163337X"
>Tcl and the Tk Toolkit
</a></em></dt>
<dd>The book by John Ousterhout, the inventor of Tcl .
</dd>
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<dt><em class=
"citetitle"><a href=
"http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0130220280"
>Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk
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<dd>Brent Welch's encyclopedic book.
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