{"product_id":"nancy-walsh-mastering-perl-tk-0636920927167","title":"Mastering Perl\/TK","description":"Perl\/Tk is the marriage of the Tk graphical toolkit with Perl, the powerful programming language used primarily for system administration, web programming, and database manipulation. With Perl\/Tk, you can build Perl programs with an attractive, intuitive GUI interface with all the power of Perl behind it.Mastering Perl\/Tk is the \"bible\" of Perl\/Tk: It's not only a great book for getting started, but the best reference for learning the techniques of experienced Perl\/Tk programmers. The first half of the book contains the basics on how to use Perl\/Tk, and then branches out into advanced applications with a series of extensive program examples. The result is a book accessible for novices, and invaluable for experienced programmers ready to learn the next step in the elegant and effective use of Perl\/Tk. The book includes: * An introduction to each of the basic Perl\/Tk widgets and geometry managers * A dissection of the MainLoop, including how to use callbacks and bindings effectively * Coverage of the Tix widgets, an extended set of widgets that are a part of the standard Perl\/Tk distribution * Working with images in Perl\/Tk, including bitmaps, pixmaps, photos, and how to compose a compound image type * How to create custom mega-widgets in Perl\/Tk, both composite and derived * Handling interprocess communication with Perl\/Tk, both with standard Unix utilities (pipes and sockets) and with the send command designed for direct communication between Tk applications * Developing your own Tk widget in the C language * Examples of web applications written with Perl\/Tk and the LWP library The book also includes appendices on installing Perl\/Tk, a complete quick-reference for each standard widget, and listings of all the extended examples in the book.Nancy Walsh is the author of Learning Perl\/Tk, and Steve Lidie wrote the Perl\/Tk Pocket Reference as well as a series of Perl\/Tk articles in The Perl Journal. Together, they have written Mastering Perl\/Tk to be the definitive guide to Perl\/Tk.","brand":"O'Reilly Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53652346241366,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/nancy-walsh-mastering-perl-tk-0636920927167","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}