Rozek: TkLua_06 - graphical display of an ASCII table

Andreas Rozek

TkLua_06 - Display of an ASCII Table

"TkLua_06" represents the graphical counterpart of the "ASCIITable" example and also gives a tabular overview of any ASCII character. Additionally, the status line shows the numeric code of any character you click on.

Technically, "TkLua_06" is a combination of "TkLua_01" and "ASCIITable" - therefore, further explanations do not seem necessary.

"TkLua_06" should be invoked without any command line arguments

  lua TkLua_06.lua

and presents itself as follows:

Screenshot of the TkLua_06 Application Window

Source Code

The source code of this example is available for download:

TkLua_06.lua (ASCII file, 10586 bytes)

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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