The Tk toolkit is a scripted GUI toolkit that is designed to be used from dynamic languages (initially Tcl, but also Perl and Python).
The Tk toolkit is a GUI toolkit that is designed to be used from dynamic languages. It was developed originally by John Ousterhout for use with Tcl, but has subsequently been evolved to be supported with many other languages (notably Perl, Python and Ruby).
Tk is a native toolkit on Windows and Mac OS X. On other Unix-based platforms, it is built directly on top of X11, and by default emulates the look traditionally associated with Motif (though this is configurable). It is recommended that newer applications use widgets from the Ttk set (where appropriate) as these use a theming engine that is more suitable for handling modern look-and-feels.
One of the key features of Tk is that its behaviors are defined almost entirely through scripting (plus a powerful event binding mechanism). This gives user code great flexibility to redefine what is happening without writing new low-level programs. The low-level drawing engine is written in C and takes care to postpone actual drawing activity until an appropriate moment (typically after all pending GUI events are processed) making Tk feel extremely responsive to user activity.
General reference links:
- Tk 8.5 reference documentation
- Tk tutorial and higher-level documentation – Includes documentation for multiple languages.
