Tk(3) perl/Tk Documentation Tk(3)

# [NAME](#NAME)

Tk - a graphical user interface toolkit for Perl

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

```
    use Tk;
    $top = new MainWindow;
    MainLoop;
```

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

The Perl/Tk manual is split up into a number of sections:

## [Introduction](#Introduction)

- Tk::overview
- Tk::UserGuide

## [Tk Geometry Management](#Tk_Geometry_Management)

- Tk::Adjuster
- Tk::form
- Tk::grid
- Tk::pack
- Tk::place
- Tk::Table
- Tk::Tiler
- Tk::Wm

## [Binding Events and Callbacks](#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_Image_Classes)

- Tk::Animation
- Tk::Bitmap
- Tk::Compound
- Tk::Image
- Tk::JPEG
- Tk::Photo
- Tk::Pixmap
- Tk::PNG

## [Tk Widget Classes](#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](#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_Generic_Methods)

- Tk::Font
- Tk::send
- Tk::tkvars
- Tk::Widget
- Tk::X11Font

## [User Interaction](#User_Interaction)

- Tk::DropSite
- Tk::Clipboard
- Tk::focus
- Tk::grab
- Tk::selection

## [Creating and Configuring Widgets](#Creating_and_Configuring_Widgets)

- Tk::CmdLine
- Tk::MainWindow
- Tk::option
- Tk::options
- Tk::palette
- Tk::Xrm

## [Popups and Dialogs](#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](#Derived_Widgets)

- Tk::composite
- Tk::configspec
- Tk::Derived
- Tk::mega
- Tk::ROText
- Tk::Scrolled
- Tk::TextUndo
- Tk::Reindex
- Tk::Pane
- Tk::ProgressBar

## [C Programming](#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](#Implementation)

- Tk::Eventloop
- Tk::Menu::Item
- Tk::Submethods
- Tk::WidgetDemo
- Tk::widgets

## [Experimental Modules](#Experimental_Modules)

- Tk::Common
- Tk::SunConst
- Tk::WinPhoto

## [Other Modules and Languages](#Other_Modules_and_Languages)

- Tk::Compile
- Tk::Tcl-perl
- Tk::X

# [AUTHOR](#AUTHOR)

Nick Ing-Simmons

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

perl, [**wish**(1)](/man/os/perl-tk/wish.1).

Alternative Perl modules implementing the Tk toolkit: Tkx, Tcl::Tk.

2026-08-31 Tk804.036

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Document: Tk(3pm) from perl-tk 804.036-r11 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://github.com/eserte/perl-tk