From:	 "Tom Wilkason" <tom.wilkason@home.com>
To:	 Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Apr 30)
Date:	 Mon, 30 Apr 2001 09:43:28 -0500 (CDT)

    John Hall announces a preliminary version of Tcl running on the
    Palm OS (!).  Find it at:
        http://www.patentburner.com/~overcode/PalmTcl-test.tar.gz
    The announcement is at:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=80335782362ccb75

    Kare Sjolander announces version 2.1b1 of the popular Snack
    sound extension.  Find it at:
        http://www.speech.kth.se/snack/

    Jean-Luc Fontaine announces version 14.2 of the moods system
    management and spreadsheet development tool at:
        http://jfontain.free.fr/moodss-14.2.tar.bz2
        http://jfontain.free.fr/moodss-14.2-1.i386.rpm
        http://jfontain.free.fr/moodss-14.2-1.spec

    Bruce Hartweg provides guidance for the listbox related question
    "Is it possible to get it to perform an action when a user
    selects/deselects an item?"
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=db2822a08eb2d62d

    If you are considering using multithreading in your Tcl application,
    please read Marty Backe's suggestion to see just how easy it can be:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=7f354f739f5ea2d7

    It's nice to tell your user when progress is being made; read the
    following for a couple of progress meter implementations by Richard
    Suchenwirth and Todd Helfter. As noted by others, Bwidgets also has
    a version.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=445ca0bf868f2cc1

    If you have a need to ensure only one instance of your Tcl program
    is running, the link below provides a number of possible solutions:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=b18e881a8f9fd0d5

    If you are stuck with using an older version of Tcl, please read
    the following wiki page for wrapper procedures that provide
    compatibility with newer commands:
        http://mini.net/cgi-bin/wikit/1537.html


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://tcl.activestate.com/resource/

    They also keep info to convince your boss Tcl is a good thing
        http://tcl.activestate.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/


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