Welcom to the home page of the 2nd undergraduate course "Advanced Open Systems" given at the school of Computer Science and Mathematics, Netanya Academic College, Israel. You may find here lots of course materials on Tcl/Tk programming, class slides, software to download, links and more.

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• Click here for review exercises for the final exam!
• A short tcl/tk commands guide
  A nice 50 pages booklet with almost all the Tcl/Tk commands (8.0):
• tcl823.exe or try the most recent tcl830.exe
  Download the most recent stable Tcl/Tk core software for Win95/98/NT (version 8.23).
• tkcon.tcl
  If you do not like the standard tclsh console then download a much better tcl console.
• Lecture notes
  • Part 1 - Introduction and overview
  • Part 2 - Tcl basics
  • Part 3 - Tk basics
  • Part 4 - The Tk grid manager
  • Part 5 - The C interface
  
  All lecture notes, class slides and homework assignments can be downloaded. However, note that all files are either in GIF format or in PostScript format (ps). You need a program like GhostView in order to be able to view them and print them. If you use Windows 95, click here to download Ghostview for Windows 95/NT.
• homework sheets .
• Practice files from lectures
  Download the pratice files that are developed during lectures
• Software
  Download software relevat to the course.
• Documents
  Download documents relevat to Tcl/Tk and other related applications.
• How to Install Tcl/Tk for Windows 95/98/NT?
  See information bellow for how to install Tcl/Tk on Win95/98/NT.
• How to work with Tcl/Tk in UNIX?
  See information bellow for how to work with Tcl/Tk on our UNIX servers.

If you want to drop me a note, my e-mail address is: samy@netanya.ac.il If this mail address does not work you can also try: samy@math.technion.ac.il. You may send me any interesting info which is relevant to the course and to other students like interesting sites, interesting subjects for projects, etc... My office phone number is: 09-8867738.

Links and stuff to download

• Links to major Tcl/Tk sites on the internet.
• The Tcl Plugin
• There are two NEWGROUPS on Tcl/Tk: comp.lang.tcl and comp.lang.tcl.announce.
• Course material from the 2nd year course "Workstations and windows programming" that was given last year. This is all the material from course given in 1998 to 2nd year students, some of it may be useful for this course. There are lots of course slides, software demos, papers, books, and more. Look at it!
• Tkpaint home page . This is a drawing program that was developed by me and some of the class 1998 students projects in this course (the bright students who helped in the development are: Yaniv Katan, Michel Zohar, and Amit Nof). You can download it and see for yourself some tcl source code written by students. It is also available as a win95 executable file. For similar projects see the "Java jaidraw drawing tool" or the "ImPress drawing tool" .
• Please note that many of the files in my archives and in many other archives are in PostScript format (ps or eps or pdf). You need a software like "GhostView" in order to be able to view them and print them. Sometimes you will also need the program "Winzip95.exe" to unzip the files. If you use Windows 95 (or NT), click here to download the most recent version of Ghostview for Windows 95/NT and "Winzip95.exe".

• The most stable versions of the core Tcl/Tk program are version 8.23 or 8.30: tcl823.exe or tcl830.exe If you have problems dowloading it via netscape or explorer then try ftp to the site ftp.netanya.ac.il, and go to directory: pub/courses/tcl/software/tcl8.2.
• It is very easy to install in Win95/NT. It is best to install Tcl/Tk in c:\tcl (not in C:\Program Files\Tcl!).
• After installing, create two batch files in one of the PATH directories (for example in c:\windows or any directory included in your PATH variable)

  tclsh.bat
  ----------
  @echo off
  c:\tcl\bin\tclsh82.exe %1 %2 %3 %4 %5  %6 %7 %8 %9
  
  and
  
  wish.bat
  ---------
  @echo off
  c:\tcl\bin\tclsh82.exe %1 %2 %3 %4 %5  %6 %7 %8 %9       
  

• After you created this batch file, it is best to work with a DOS Window (a better choice is 4Dos or 4NT!). Win95 shortcuts to wish and tclsh are useless if your scripts need arguments!
• Use any ascii editor you like to write your script files. Then you can run your script with the command:

              DOS> tclsh file.tcl.
  

  If your script accepts aguments:

              DOS> tclsh file.tcl arg1 arg2 ... argn.
  

• You use the wish batch command in a similar way for tk scripts.

• I will prepare a list of ideas for final projects for you to choose later on during the semester. You are also free to suggests ideas for final projects. If you have any interesting ideas, please let me know!
• At the moment I encourage you to look at the tkWorld project and maybe pick an interesting Unix command and write a graphical interface to it.
• Also look at the Tkpaint home page for a good example of a project.