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Scripting Dynamic Maps: Some Examples and Experiences with Tcl/Tk

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Multimedia Cartography

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This chapter is based upon experience gained whilst using the Tcl/Tk scripting language and graphical toolkit to produce fast interactive maps. Tcl provides familiar programming features and high level control of external processes, whilst Tk adds graphical user interface (GUI) windows. In combination Tcl/Tk supplies a rich environment for developing new code and linking existing software with GUIs. The language originated at Berkeley in the late 1980’s and has developed rapidly, accumulating a large user community and being further developed by Sun Microsystems. Tcl/Tk remains an ‘open source’ package that is freely available for download from Scriptics, a platform company for Tcl/Tk formed to provide support and develop additional commercial tools (Scriptics 1998).

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  1. Department of Geography, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

    Jason Dykes

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  1. Department of Land Information, RMIT University, GPO Box 2476V, 3001, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    William Cartwright

  2. Department of Geography/Geology, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 68182, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

    Michael P. Peterson

  3. Institute of Cartography and Reproduction Techniques, Vienna University of Technology, Karlsgasse 11, A-1040, Vienna, Austria

    Georg Gartner

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Dykes, J. (1999). Scripting Dynamic Maps: Some Examples and Experiences with Tcl/Tk. In: Cartwright, W., Peterson, M.P., Gartner, G. (eds) Multimedia Cartography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03784-3_19

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