From: Brett Schwarz <brett_schwarz@yahoo.com> To: Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Dec 10) Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 19:20:29 -0600 (CST) QOTWs: "... if my family ever saw [how much free documentation and code I contribute], I would be in big trouble for spending so much time here" several Tcl developers Every time I show someone how to set up a socket listener in Tcl and compare it with what they've learned in C, they are convinced I left something out." Roland B. Roberts "There are rocks less solid than that." Cameron Laird, on Expect http://groups.google.com/groups?th=53aa004a1f5b66e0 "This is truly a great development community. With your help I learned some Tcl this year, and developed apps that allowed us to beat out vendor proposals and efforts (VB, Java, C++, other)." Rael "We should make Tcl/Tk very difficult. People would be proud then that they have mastered it." Arjen Markus http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=9ufssh%24feu%243%40srv38.cas.org Large file support http://groups.google.com/groups?th=c0fc552db11513c2 Grid lines up two columns in two separate frames. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=4da383c35332565 Different uses of Tk Menu http://groups.google.com/groups?th=fd622e35b77a2418 Making a speadsheet http://groups.google.com/groups?th=ba82388e4f8b9de6 Get a cup of coffee...sit back and read a nice (long) thread on using Tcl for testing http://groups.google.com/groups?th=1f280dbdf2542323 http://mini.net/tcl/DejaGnu http://mini.net/tcl/testing Be careful how you compare http://groups.google.com/groups?th=438d20f43a6980d Take a Tcl tutorial survery http://www.mini.net/cgi-bin/nph-wikit/2636.html pushd popd implementation http://mini.net/cgi-bin/wikit/2661.html Yeti 0.2 is a scanner/parser package for Tcl modeled after lex and yacc. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=2ee3d01abce2ace0 Multi-column listbox package Tablelist 2.1 http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3C0FF00B.FE01ED81%40t-online.de 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://www.tcl-tk.net/resource/ The Xchange sponsor also keeps info to convince your boss Tcl is a good thing http://www.tcl-tk.net/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/mini/tcl/0 For the ideal overview of the topics about Tcl most likely to interest a newcomer, see "Arts and Crafts ..." http://purl.org/mini/tcl/969 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. To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday, ask <claird@neosoft.com> to subscribe. Be sure to mention "Tcl-URL!". -- Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://www.ddj.com) is pleased to participate in and sponsor the "Tcl-URL!" project.