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Pronounced »tickel«.
Tcl is a simplistic, yet powerful language, which features list and strings as data types.
An electronic manufacturing process. Combined with Liquid Crystal Displays. A transistor is being embedded in the display and boosts the signal needed to realign the liquid crystal.
Widely used Graphical User Interface Toolkit. Originally fashioned after the Motif Toolkit under X Window System.
Tk can be used with: Lisp, Ruby, Python, Perl, C, Tcl, Erlang, Limbo, Ada, Cobol...
Tk is the Graphical User Interface of the Inferno Operating System.
A predominantly rectangular shape inside a Graphical User Interface. In general actions or event handlers are associated with it.
»button«, is an example for a window. The class is »Button« and each instance of a button may have a »-command« attribute.
See Window.
The area without any active control. Usually referred to as background. The behavior of a dialog can be deduced by how its active elements are surrounded by white space.
It is however critical not to include excessive amount of white space inside active controls. In this situation the recognition of the control as such is severely negative affected –an important reason for separating geometry management and window.