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From: Stuart Cassoff <stwo@sympatico.ca>
To: Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Sep 17)
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 10:16:02 -0500 (CDT)
QOTW from Sinner_Prairy, who has Tcl on his "list of 'things to learn'":
"many, many of my doubts have been solved visiting [the Wiki]."
Tcl pitches in as a good citizen in disaster relief.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=daee9f7ece772ed0
License problems?
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=6a47f55050d06490
Canvas, scaling and tcl_precision, coordinate systems.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=ea5790a65a228d1b
While a great deal of productivity goes into (and returns from!)
the Wiki, cookbook, and tcllib, Peter Lewerin is making PLEAC
into a fourth authoritative and fresh code compendium.
http://pleac.sourceforge.net/
David Gravereaux is working on support for other compilers.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=ppiqpt4cmdvl2ppma3pudroj1bfot1qe4f%404ax.com
Tk fonts under windows.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=8c8b008740ae45ef
Simulating Perl BEGIN/END blocks in Tcl.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=4af1680c1875bfcc
Stubs, making a minicore, core development.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=bd301c51817c0c43
http://groups.google.com/groups?start=75&group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=9nqh9k%24me6%243%40srv38.cas.org
http://groups.google.com/groups?start=75&group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=3BA0E4DE.5A91B6F5%40ActiveState.com
4000 item search, methods explored, 8.4 features discussed.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=7d54861af43f32b8
Using TCL_STUB_MAGIC, compilers' difficulty with ints and hex.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=31e251759eb87443
Problems with wiki search do not affect everyone. Please report
if you are having difficulty.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=e9b8700f6c1f39f4
http://groups.google.com/groups?start=100&group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=3B9F8C69.40C096C2%40ActiveState.com
Using Tcl with languages other than C/C++, problems with Delphi.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=aaf41950bb807e18
Mac OSX and Tk, tcl_platfrm and MacOSX.
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3b9da0e4%240%2418726%40motown.iinet.net.au&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D25%26hl%3Den%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl%26start%3D150%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=b64c7d1fbec92439
Professional support available for Android.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=46ec00382b930260
APL, multi-dimensional arrays, first class arrays.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=40fdf88503da0ff
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=5e4f93a3e2356c34
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=40fdf88503da0ff
SWIG and binary strings.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=e4a2dc965d7640a0
Logitech Quick Cam.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=8de669b8ea9999a2
Printing in Windows 95.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=f4390aee5fd759f6
Enhanced [info args].
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=4b0d5dba85d2c160
TIP #61: MAKE TK_NO_SECURITY RUN-TIME SWITCHABLE.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=9e29134a33908abb
[expr], integers, 64 vs 32 bit platform situations.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=9436879564c886e
XOTcl.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=f7ae77eac92be62b
TclBlend, JACL and multi-threading.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=6fd3f5914baeb35c
Using an empty array name.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=a4c527ecea7a3a39
What Smalltalk features/functions/capabilities might be usefully
added to Tcl/Tk?
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=617bbee4ec867ba7
Common runtime (Tcl/Perl/Python).
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=9d794b8738a42585
Expect for win32. David Gravereux will port it if someone pays.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=192d0c477784baa4
New listutil module from Glenn Jackman.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=fd1ce2e25270567d
Picture manipulation software from Darren New.
http://groups.google.com/groups?start=150&group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=3B9D5932.B35E0B8F%40san.rr.com
"iwidgets 4.0.0", says Chad Smith.
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=oTdn7.6183%24Wr3.408793%40news1.rdc1.ga.home.com&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D25%26hl%3Den%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl%26start%3D150%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl
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.purl.org/net/tcl-welcome
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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