From: "Jeffrey Hobbs" <jeffrey.hobbs@scriptics.com> Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Nov 8) Date: 8 Nov 1999 23:13:15 -0800 Headlining it all, Tcl/Tk 8.2.2 was released, patch release that has endured Pure'ification. http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=545040370 http://www.scriptics.com/products/tcltk/8.2.html And of course Nijtmans follows with his Dash patch (note new home page for Jan) which enhances Tk, primarily the canvas http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=545342788 http://purl.oclc.org/net/nijtmans/dash.html Paul Duffin ponders for us the issues for deleting an active eval, as well as introducing a proposal for improved Async handlers http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=538816106 TclBlend and Jacl, blurring the lines and tying Tcl to Java, have reached 1.2.5 http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=543997203 http://www.scriptics.com/products/java/ trfcrypt 2.0 is ready, an add-on for Trf (the transforms extension) that provides crypt-algorithms http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN= http://www.oche.de/%7Eakupries/soft/trfcrypt/ Chris Nelson announces his new book, "The Tcl/Tk Programmer's Reference", described as "man pages on steroids", with some favorable reviews. http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=543167088 Ishido, a game rewritten in Tcl/Tk was announced http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=543984207 Moodss, a modular OO spreadsheet for Unix with some sysadmin utilities, reaches 9.3 http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=545308052 http://jfontain.free.fr/ A frameset extension was announced - it manipulates data structures called 'frames' (Minsky). http://home.att.net/~cafugate/ Tcl + Java = A match made for scripting http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-1999/swol-11-jacl.html Mk4Tcl 1.2, an embedded database, is released http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=544775242 http://www.equi4.com/metakit/tcl.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/ Scriptics maintains a highly organized Tcl resource center http://www.scriptics.com/resource/ They also keep info to convince your boss Tcl is a good thing http://www.scriptics.com/scripting/ 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/ Tcl/Tk Consortium can search comp.lang.tcl and c.l.t.announce http://www.tclconsortium.org/resources/ 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 or http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=~g%20comp.lang.tcl%20Tcl-URL%21 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!". -- Jeffrey Hobbs The Tcl Guy Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://www.ddj.com) is pleased to participate in and sponsor the "Tcl-URL!" project. -- Cameron Laird http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/home.html claird@NeoSoft.com +1 281 996 8546 FAX [[Send Tcl/Tk announcements to tcl-announce@mitchell.org Send administrivia to tcl-announce-request@mitchell.org Announcements archived at http://www.findmail.com/list/tcl_announce/ The primary Tcl/Tk archive is ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/ ]]