What is Trebuchet Tk?
Trebuchet Tk is a client program for connecting to TinyMUD style social MUD servers on the InterNet. (screenshot) This program is designed to be used with TinyMUD, TinyMUCK, TinyMUSH, MOO, and several other variants. It’s probably not well designed for combat oriented MUDs like LPMUD and Diku, but it does support them. I started writing Trebuchet when I became frustrated at TinyFugue’s text-only interface, and at the lack of any GUI MUD clients that were both easy to use, and as powerful as TinyFugue. When it came time to name the client, I figured that a Trebuchet would be an excellent way to sling MUD. What’s So Great About It? What I consider nice about it may not even be interesting or useful to other people. However, here’s some of the things it can do: • TCL/Tk is a powerful extension language, which you can use to add new abilities to the client. You can even create fully interactive GUI dialogs from TCL/Tk scripts. Actually, the entire client is written in TCL/Tk. Yet it’s amaz
