From: Donald G Porter <dgp@cam.nist.gov>
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Feb 28)
Date: 28 Feb 2000 23:04:20 -0600

Still waiting for detailed reports from Tcl2K.  Oustervotes?  Feather?

    TclVSdb 1.2 released.  Database facility written entirely in Tcl.
        http://www.lowcountry.com/%7Ejscottb/tcltk.shtml

    Tclgdbm 0.3 and qgdbm 0.3 released.  Tcl interfaces to GNU dbm.
        http://www.vogel-nest.de/tcl/

    VisualGIPSY 2.5 released.  Open Source GUI Builder for Tk.
        http://www.prs.de/int/products/vg/

    Long thread probing the capabilities of a newly announced Tcl "compiler".
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=587611083
        http://home.t-online.de/home/aotto/compiler.html	(German)

    Web Techniques article: "Writing Intelligent Web Agents".
        http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2000/03/schrenk/

    Poll on proposed BWidgets revisions.
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=589944225

    Survey: Why didn't you attend Tcl2K?
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=587499084
        
    Freewrap's FreeWish.exe needs tclpip82.dll .
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=589722028

    New Tk 8.3 "feature" on NT: [wm withdraw .] hides [bgerror] dialogs.
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=588375589
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=588412966

    Making XIM work with Tcl/Tk 8.3.0 .
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=588973271
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=588420673
        
    Applying formatting tags when inserting text into a text widget.
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=588179242

    File locking requires platform- and filesystem-specific trickery.
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=588513679
        
    Unit conversion and measured quantity entry widget.
        http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/wiki/unit

    Cursors, hot spots, and bitmaps.
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=588867892

    Discussion about pros and cons of enabling stub interfaces in BLT
    leads to useful information about what stubs do and do not provide,
    the prospects of Scriptics accepting core patches which add to the
    core API, and a definition of insanity.
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=587245018

    Argument rerun:  Should [package require Tk] == wish ?
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=588890883


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/


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