Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 17:20:47 -0500 (CDT) Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Apr 9) From: "Tom Wilkason" <tom.wilkason@home.com> To: Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com While "Tcl-URL!"'s consistent focus is on working code, and away from marketing and other hype-prone domains, this week's events call for special attention on the ActiveState Tools Corporation (AS): AS employee and tclguy Jeffrey Hobbs announces, "The Tcl Developer Xchange is currently moving from its old home at Scriptics to a new machine hosted by ActiveState. It's still in transition, but if you are interesting in assisting in the transition and have some knowledge of tclhttpd and/or AOLServer, contact Jeff Hobbs or Brent Welch." While the transition is supposed to be transparent to users, DNS stumbles, electrical outages (in two countries!), and other calamities too involved to explain have left various URLs sporadically unreliable. http://tcl.activestate.com/ Jeff will release 8.3.3 of Tcl late Monday, 9 April 2001, synchronized with ActiveTcl 8.3.3.8330. Expect propagation Tuesday. AS launches a MSDN-modeled ActiveState Programmer Network (ASPN) that delivers the Komodo integrated development environment (IDE), plus lots of related goodies http://www.ActiveState.com/ASPN Official introduction of Komodo 1.0 ("the first Mozilla application by a third party") is slated for Tuesday at the SDWest conference http://www.activestate.com/Corporate/ASPNKomodolaunch.html Back in traditional Tcl-land, Csaba Nemethi csaba.nemethi@t-online.de announces Version 1.2 of the multi-column listbox package Tablelist, a pure Tcl/Tk implementation of the "tablelist" mega-widget. Also included is a general utility module for mega-widgets. Find the download at http://www.nemethi.de Iain B. Findleton ifindleton@videotron.ca announces the long-desired Version 4.0.1.0 of the Tcl-DP package. Iain has taken the package under his wings and enhanced it with the modern Tcl stubs interface providing Tcl version independent (> 8.1) loading of the libraries. See http://pages.infinit.net/cclients Iain also announces at the same URL Version 1.0 of Containers for Tcl. This package enhances Tcl with more structured containers such as bag, queue, tree, priority queue, random queue, struct, stack and hash containers. Tcl Core Team (TCT) member Don Porter requests maintainers for portions of the Tk library. If you have a knack, interest or are otherwise inspired, please send an email to <tcl-core@lists.sourceforge.net>. More details available at: http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=c8383452d0a3f64a You are invited to join the Tcl-2001 Conference, held jointly with the O'Reilly Open Source Conference in San Diego, California, July 23-27, 2001. More details are at the main O'Reilly Conference Page: http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/index.html Looking for a way to query the number of lines in a Tk text widget? A number of solutions are available http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=6dcdbe724b340ea3 Feeling a bit square? Read the discussion on creating rounded rectangles on a canvas widget. http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=25fa61c2af2b2414 Can't find the binding name for that key? Two examples by Jeff and Rolf show just how easy it is. http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=36865c83ff63882e Need to process character by character data in Tcl on your Unix terminal? Donal Fellows provides a solution. http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=ae78ab1253dab3fa Accessing modems or other serial devices? A discussion and references to further study at: http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=11a5742832b67044 The Tcl'ers Wiki is slowly building up much needed expanded command syntax and examples for Tcl at <http://mini.net/cgi-bin/wikit/1019.html> and Tk at <http://mini.net/cgi-bin/wikit/1047.html> The task is not yet complete and if you feel so inclined, please help out with your expertise by editing the blank or unfinished pages. Everything you want is probably one or two clicks away in these pages: The "Welcome to comp.lang.tcl" message by Andreas Kupries http://www.westend.com/~kupries/c.l.t.welcome.html Larry Virden maintains a comp.lang.tcl FAQ launcher http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-FAQ/ Brent Welch maintains "The Tcl Developer Xchange", a highly organized resource center of documents and software with provisions for individuals to "set up a link to your software and update ... as you release new versions." http://dev.scriptics.com/resource/ They also keep info to convince your boss Tcl is a good thing http://dev.scriptics.com/scripting/ Mark Harrison publishes summaries of Tcl Core Team (TCT) activity http://tcltk.com/docs/tct/ NeoSoft has a comp.lang.tcl contributed sources archive http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/contributed-software/ Cameron Laird tracks many Tcl/Tk references of interest http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/comp.lang.tcl/ Cetus Links maintains a Tcl/Tk page with verified links http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html Findmail archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts http://www.egroups.com/list/tcl_announce/ Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here: http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/url.html or http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=~g%20comp.lang.tcl%20Tcl-URL%21 Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome. 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