From:	 kennykb@acm.org (Kevin Kenny)
To:	 Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (May 14)
Date:	 Mon, 14 May 2001 12:16:51 -0500 (CDT)

Tcl testimonials of the week:
    Richard Suchenwirth: "It's easy to do it different from Tcl, but
    it's very hard to do it better!" 
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=997946985c050ff5&seekm=3AFA459D.DEDDB151%40kst.siemens.de#p

    Steve Blinkhorn: "Tcl is a good first language: I have staff who
    have produced very nice code within days of starting to use it."
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=5ee241b818af6f9&seekm=9db2fs%242of%242%40fastnet.prd.co.uk#p

Discussions:
    Undergraduates working with Peter D. Hiscocks have posted two thesis
    projects dealing with how to interface Tcl/Tk to custom electronic
    hardware via parallel ports and ISA buses.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=c0b8a044f82f141
        http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~phiscock/thesis/thesis.html

    Iain Findleton reports on his tests of Tcl socket performance over
    Gigabit Ethernet, on both Linux and Windows platforms.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=82ef705a2795ef26

    Several posters discuss extensions that support 3-D graphics and
    compare OpenGL with Direct3D.  Alas, somehow groups.google.com has
    split the thread into two:
      http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=8c5d8fe8ed426391
      http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=821f840b2051d338

Tcl usage examples:
    Donal K. Fellows shows us how to code a 'repeat' function that
    schedules a periodic operation.  It includes an idiomatic means of
    ensuring that ::errorInfo makes sense when errors occur in the
    operation.
      http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=54c2956ca20f6bef

    Kevin Kenny (this week's Tcl-URL! editor) shows an example of reading
    from a pipe asynchronously, using [fileevent].
      http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=20f03755006952e2
      http://mini.net/cgi-bin/wikit/880.html

New software releases:
    Ashok Nadkarni announces Palm TCL V0.1: Tcl 7.6 for the Palm Pilot.
      http://home.earthlink.net/~ashoknadkarni/
      http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=134ad341f407a4d8

    Akos Polster announces a Tcl8.3.2 port for Windows CE.
    Supported platforms include iPAQ (StrongARM and WinCE 3.0)
    and handheld PC with SH3 (such as HP 620LX/680LX).
      http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=17851476a07eb08
      http://tclce.sourceforge.net/

    Neil Madden announces a Tcl interface to the libcdaudio library
    for Unix, allowing Snack applications to play audio CDs.
      http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=6771a55ea89e421c

    Jeff Hobbs announces TkCon 2.1.  New features include the ability to
    attach a console to an arbitrary port, terrific for phoning up
    a Web server directly, introducing a debugging port on an existing
    application, and so on.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=5b7d719bc9becd9c

    BitWalk Tcl/Tk 8.3.3 (Japanese "Batteries Included" distribution),
    build #16:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=5b0ab7a3c407eaf9
        http://users.goo.ne.jp/bitwalk/

    QuickTimeTcl 3.0a3:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=de2d302cb8cd2796
        http://hem.fyristorg.com/matben/qt/

    SMC (State Map Compiler), 1.0, beta 6:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=18355ba8decf8326
        http://smc.sourceforge.net

    Snack Sound Toolkit v2.1b2:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=8f00937016916837
        http://www.speech.kth.se/snack/

    Also, the ActiveState Tools IDE called "Komodo" (not to be
    confused with several other Komodos), currently available only
    as a "beta" for Win* and Linux, no supports Tcl syntax coloring,
    method tips and completion, and inline syntax checking
	http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/Komodo/


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/


Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here:
  http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/url.html
	     > For some reason, the editors have only been updating
	     > http://www.ddj.com/topics/tclurl/ ...
	     >
	     http://tcl.activestate.com:8004/tclurl/ is also up-to-date.                   
or
  http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=~g%20comp.lang.tcl%20Tcl-URL%21

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