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TkLua_02 - Display of predefined X11 Bitmaps

"TkLua_02" produces an overview of all X11 bitmaps defined by Tk. The program's structure is similar to that of "TkLua_01" without assigning any event handling routines to the individual bitmap displays.

"TkLua_02" should be invoked without any command line arguments

  lua TkLua_02.lua

and presents itself as follows:


Screenshot of the TkLua_02 Application Window

Source Code

The source code of this example is available for download:

References

[1] Roberto Ierusalimschy, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo, Waldemar Celes
Reference Manual of the Programming Language Lua 4.0
(see http://www.lua.org/manual)
the reference manual contains any relevant information about the language itself, the set of standard libraries and its interface to the run-time environment;
[2] Waldemar Celes
tklua - Binding Tk to Lua
(see http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~celes/tklua/)
TkLua provides support for Tk widgets (allowing to construct graphical user interfaces) from within Lua scripts. The given web page describes the "basic concepts" behind TkLua and explains how to use it from within Lua scripts;
[3] Christian Vogler
TkLua (4.0a1)
(see http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~cvogler/lua/tklua.html)
since the original distribution of TkLua [2] has been developed for Lua versions prior to 4.0, Christian Vogler ported TkLua to the new Lua 4.0 API;
[4] Tcl/Tk 8.3.4 Manual
(see http://www.scriptics.com/man/tcl8.3/)
if you plan to use TkLua for your Lua script, you will hardly survive without the Tcl/Tk documentation - it can be viewed online at the given address (unless you already downloaded the Tcl/Tk distribution onto your system and installed it there);

Disclaimer

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