From:	 "Cameron Laird" <claird@neosoft.com>
To:	 Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Aug 25)
Date:	 Sat, 25 Aug 2001 13:16:30 -0500 (CDT)

QOTW:  Cascaded macro expansion, pre-incrementation, compiler optimization,
and memory mysteries collaborate to inspire Bryan Oakley to report, "Seeing
this sort of thing reminds me again how much I love working at the
scripting level, and how I absolutely do NOT miss working with C..."

    'Like multimedia work?  Tcl appears to be part of an SDL-mediated
    solution to grab video from your QuickCam
	http://www.libsdl.org/projects/tcl-demo/
    as well as QuickTime,
	http://hem.fyristorg.com/matben/qt/
    animation,
	http://www.sys.uea.ac.uk/~fuzz/tmci/
    and DirectMedia managers
	http://www.geocities.com/~chengye/imging.html
    Also, Devin Eyre explains his use of ImageMagick for screen and
    widget capture
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=7f7fd2b8dd2512b6

    A Tcl_FinalizeNotifier ... situation manifests as errors in
    such contexts as use of events in a threaded mod_dtcl or TclX.
    Jeffrey Hobbs supplies a temporary counter-hack 
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=cf9086412af7d551

    Vitus Wagner helps Jonathon Allen Booth with a sophisticated
    secure "connected" GUI; the key technical feature is Tk's
    ability to manage widgets under the control of distinct
    [interp]s.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=954b7ff91086d86a


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/
    The Xchange sponsor also keeps info to convince your boss Tcl
    is a good thing
        http://tcl.activestate.com/scripting/

    The Tcl'ers Wiki is a huge, dynamic, collaboratively edited repository
    of documentation, examples, tutorials and pontifications on all things Tcl.
        http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/wiki/0.html
    For the ideal overview of the topics about Tcl most likely to
    interest a newcomer, see "Arts and Crafts ..."
	http://mini.net/tcl/969.html

    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

    Google Groups archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts
	http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/   

Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here:
  http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/url.html
--in principal.  In spring 2001, though,
  http://www.ddj.com/topics/tclurl/
  http://tcl.activestate.com:8004/tclurl/
are more consistently up-to-date.  A fourth possibility is                 
  http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lang.tcl  

Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome.

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