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# Roadmap

This documentation of XF is structured in several parts. There also exists an online help system (Help | ...) that can be used to get additional help, and an interactive tutorial (Help | Tutorial) that explains the usage of XF by showing the construction of a simple application. How you use the documentation depends on your already existing knowledge about Tcl/Tk and XF , and upon the way you want to learn the usage of these packages.

- Chapter .
  This chapter contains a brief introduction into the Tcl/Tk

  system. This section does not try to compensate the existing documentation published by John Ousterhout.

- Chapter .
  Here you learn how to work with XF . Of course, this chapter can only give a first impression of this package. Here, you also get additional information on the XF

  relevant parts of Tcl/Tk . This information may point you into the right direction when questions concerning Tcl/Tk

  and XF occur.

- Chapter .
  All dialog elements are explained as well as the usage of these dialogs in the development process.
- Chapter .
  For people interested in the internals of XF , this chapter describes the design and ideas behind XF . Also, the internal interface for adding new functionality is described.
- Chapter .
  A short introduction into the contributed tools of XF is given in this chapter. This covers the pixmap editor, the help system, the tutorial, the hardcopy tool and the resource editor. Also, the embedding of external editors, the version management system and the displaying of graphs is explained.
- Chapter .
  This chapter describes the installation and maintenance of the XF package. Besides that, a brief introduction into the Tcl/Tk maintenance with respect to the usage with XF is given.
- Chapter .
  To get an impression about the available templates (predefined interface elements), this chapter contains hardcopies and descriptions of all contributed templates.
- Appendix .
  This appendix explains all keyboard and other bindings available within XF . Also bindings that are automatically created in the XF generated code are explained.

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