From: Jeffrey Hobbs <jeffrey.hobbs@scriptics.com> Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Jan 5) Date: 5 Jan 2000 06:52:35 -0600 With the onset of 8.3, people are starting to take note of some of the positive new effects. Nijtmans answers one query as to why perceptions of a faster canvas widget are likely reality. http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=565745356 Poindexter releases v1.2 of TclTicker, the stock ticket program, after receiving lots of enthusiastic ideas. http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=565928002 http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/ftparchive/sorted/apps/tclticker/1.2/ Brian starts a long thread about the upcoming ::listx command. http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=566233578 While Kupries makes a note of what's there so far, with available source code. http://www.purl.org/NET/akupries/tcltk.html http://www.purl.org/NET/akupries/listx-src.tar.gz An interesting article on O'Reilly's web site ponders whether scripting languages can really call themselves VHLL (the author forgot to mention Tcl - maybe that's why the author concludes scripting languages lack the V? :^) http://www.oreilly.com/news/vhll_1299.html Welch informs us of another Tcl/Tk track at the next O'Reilly Open Source Convention, in July 2000. Gerald Lester will be heading it up. http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=566204603 http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=566208347 Hobbs notes plans for an upcoming standardized library to be distributed along with (but not in) the core http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=567015633 Strosberg hits on why you don't want to leave 'puts' calls in your Tcl code http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=566402699 JCW notes that the popular Wiki, et al have moved http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=566961311 The ASED Tcl/Tk IDE reaches v0.9.3 after small bug fixes http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=567988957 http://home.t-online.de/home/andreas.sievers/asedhome.htm And last, but not least, Fontaine releases v10.1 of moodss, the Modular OO Dynamic SpreadSheet, which uses features of 8.3 http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=568302793 http://jfontain.free.fr/ 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/ 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 jeffrey.hobbs at scriptics.com Scriptics Corp. -- Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://www.ddj.com) is pleased to participate in and sponsor the "Tcl-URL!" project. -- Cameron Laird <claird@NeoSoft.com> Business: http://www.Phaseit.net Personal: http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/home.html