perlquestion ELISHEVA <p>I'm trying to get up to speed with [mod://Tk] and finding it hard going. To translate my knowledge of other GUIs to Tk I really need something like a systematic overview that says: Hey, Tk sort-of, but not quite, borrows its terminology from Motif (e.g. Geometry manager) but don't look for Combobox in the documentation because we call it "BrowseEntry". (go figure); the core widget set is ... here are the five programmable events handled by the Foobar widget and so on. Here is how to control the event loop... </p> <p>The CPAN documentation seems plentiful but incomplete. For example, if there are parameters for [Tk::MainLoop] or any special methods for [Tk::MainWindow] it can't be discerned from the documentation.</p> <p>Studying Perl source code is time consuming but even that isn't an option, since most of the Tk library is just a wrapper around a C library.</p> <p>Often times a Perl wrapper for a cross-language library has sketchy documentation, so usually I look for a good cross-referenced API in the original language. But if such an animal exists, my Google fu isn't strong enough to find it. Maybe a reference to it is hiding somewhere in the CPAN documentation? The closest thing I could find was [http://www.seedling.org/tcl/tkAPI_man.html|Tk API manual] but it isn't very searchable - just a long list of manual pages. Furthermore, I don't have a clear idea of how any of this is mapped back to the Perl Tk without exploring the C code itself (and I can't even do that because I'm not sure where to find Tk.xs and tkGlue.c the two files supposedly responsible for connecting the C libraries to Perl, according to [mod://Tk]). [mod://CallingTk] is "under construction".</p> <p>Most of yesterday I muddled through using CPAN and a tutorial here and there, but this isn't a very efficient way of learning something. Tutorials tend to focus on explaining concepts, not in laying out the full range of capabilities of a toolkit.</p> <p>I feel like I'm missing something obvious - a Google link that was staring me in the face, perhaps?</p> <p>Many thanks in advance, beth</p>