--- name: "Tk" section: "3pm" platform: "linux" package: "perl-tk" version: "804.036-9" release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01" platforms: ["linux"] url: "https://new.carta.tech/Tk" --- # Tk(3pm) a graphical user interface toolkit for Perl ## NAME Tk - a graphical user interface toolkit for Perl ## SYNOPSIS ``` use Tk; $top = new MainWindow; MainLoop; ``` ## DESCRIPTION The Perl/Tk manual is split up into a number of sections: ### Introduction - • Tk::overview - • Tk::UserGuide ### Tk Geometry Management - • Tk::Adjuster - • Tk::form - • Tk::grid - • Tk::pack - • Tk::place - • Tk::Table - • Tk::Tiler - • Tk::Wm ### Binding Events and Callbacks - • Tk::after - • Tk::bind - • Tk::bindtags - • Tk::callbacks - • Tk::Error - • Tk::event - • Tk::exit - • Tk::fileevent - • Tk::IO ### Tk Image Classes - • Tk::Animation - • Tk::Bitmap - • Tk::Compound - • Tk::Image - • Tk::JPEG - • Tk::Photo - • Tk::Pixmap - • Tk::PNG ### Tk Widget Classes - • Tk::Button - • Tk::Canvas - • Tk::Checkbutton - • Tk::Entry - • Tk::Frame - • Tk::HList - • Tk::Label - • Tk::Listbox - • Tk::Menu - • Tk::Menubutton - • Tk::Message - • Tk::Optionmenu - • Tk::Radiobutton - • Tk::Scale - • Tk::Scrollbar - • Tk::Text - • Tk::Toplevel ### Tix Extensions - • Tk::Balloon - • Tk::BrowseEntry - • Tk::DialogBox - • Tk::DirTree - • Tk::DItem - • Tk::InputO - • Tk::LabFrame - • Tk::Mwm - • Tk::NoteBook - • Tk::TixGrid - • Tk::tixWm - • Tk::TList - • Tk::Tree ### Tk Generic Methods - • Tk::Font - • Tk::send - • Tk::tkvars - • Tk::Widget - • Tk::X11Font ### User Interaction - • Tk::DropSite - • Tk::Clipboard - • Tk::focus - • Tk::grab - • Tk::selection ### Creating and Configuring Widgets - • Tk::CmdLine - • Tk::MainWindow - • Tk::option - • Tk::options - • Tk::palette - • Tk::Xrm ### Popups and Dialogs - • Tk::chooseColor - • Tk::chooseDirectory - • Tk::ColorEditor - • Tk::Dialog - • Tk::DialogBox - • Tk::FBox - • Tk::FileSelect - • Tk::getOpenFile - • Tk::messageBox - • Tk::MsgBox ### Derived Widgets - • Tk::composite - • Tk::configspec - • Tk::Derived - • Tk::mega - • Tk::ROText - • Tk::Scrolled - • Tk::TextUndo - • Tk::Reindex - • Tk::Pane - • Tk::ProgressBar ### C Programming - • Internals - • pTk - • 3DBorder - • BackgdErr - • BindTable - • CanvPsY - • CanvTkwin - • CanvTxtInfo - • Clipboard - • ClrSelect - • ConfigWidg - • ConfigWind - • CoordToWin - • CrtErrHdlr - • CrtGenHdlr - • CrtImgType - • CrtItemType - • CrtMainWin - • CrtPhImgFmt - • CrtSelHdlr - • CrtWindow - • DeleteImg - • DoOneEvent - • DoWhenIdle - • DrawFocHlt - • EventHndlr - • EventInit - • FileHndlr - • FindPhoto - • FontId - • FreeXId - • GeomReq - • GetAnchor - • GetBitmap - • GetCapStyl - • GetClrmap - • GetColor - • GetCursor - • GetFont - • GetFontStr - • GetGC - • GetImage - • GetJoinStl - • GetJustify - • GetOption - • GetPixels - • GetPixmap - • GetRelief - • GetRootCrd - • GetScroll - • GetSelect - • GetUid - • GetVisual - • GetVRoot - • HandleEvent - • IdToWindow - • ImgChanged - • InternAtom - • MainLoop - • MaintGeom - • MainWin - • ManageGeom - • MapWindow - • MeasureChar - • MoveToplev - • Name - • NameOfImg - • OwnSelect - • ParseArgv - • Preserve - • QWinEvent - • Restack - • RestrictEv - • SetAppName - • SetClass - • SetGrid - • SetVisual - • Sleep - • StrictMotif - • TextLayout - • TimerHndlr - • Tk\_Init - • WindowId ### Implementation - • Tk::Eventloop - • Tk::Menu::Item - • Tk::Submethods - • Tk::WidgetDemo - • Tk::widgets ### Experimental Modules - • Tk::Common - • Tk::SunConst - • Tk::WinPhoto ### Other Modules and Languages - • Tk::Compile - • Tk::Tcl-perl - • Tk::X ## AUTHOR Nick Ing-Simmons ## SEE ALSO perl, [**wish**(1)](/wish/1.md). Alternative Perl modules implementing the Tk toolkit: Tkx, Tcl::Tk.