From: Bill Schongar <bschonga@cisco.com>
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (May  9)
Date: 9 May 2000 14:24:00 -0500

Our featured quote, from a posting by Donal K. Fellows:
  "C++ is a low-level language with some mid-level features 
  grafted onto it.  It is almost certainly used in more places 
  than justified, often due to ignorance about the alternatives 
  (of which Tcl is one.)"

    Mo Dejong announces the 1.2.6 percolation of Jacl and TclBlend,
    aka TclJava, including a few pre-compiled binaries:
         http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=617772045
    Or get them from:
        http://www.cs.umn.edu/~dejong/tcl/tcljava/prerelease.html
     
    Webshell 3.0 is announced, a tool for creating web-based
    application such as on-the-fly HTML, database functions, and
    other such fun stuff. Note that you need Tcl 8.2 or above to
    make it run...
        http://websh.com/download

    Where'd Tkdesk go, anyway? In case you're looking, it's moved
    to a new location:
        http://sd.znet.com/~jchris/tkdesk/

    Want to talk objects? Inheritance? Static, private, public,
    constructor, destructor... well, more discussion goes on about
    the option of including Itcl in the 8.4 release core:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=618484139
     
    Iain announces Tkprint 1.1.2, an extension for printing
    functions on MS Windows:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=618525236
     
    Mac users: the 8.3 installer includes a wish shell that
    doesn't run on MacOS 7.5.5, 8.0, or 8.1. A fix is due out
    shortly, and will be announced.

    A simple question on existing lists of Tcl disadvantages leads
    to further introspection, including discussions on whether
    arrays are really arrays, or hash tables, or 'maps', or...
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=619323210

    Joystick control under Linux - you know you want it, though
    you may not be sure when you'll use it. A neat solution to
    the problem you didn't know you had:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=619631030
     
    On the subject of peripherals, Jeff briefly mentions that
    the Button-4 and Button-5 bindings will let most Linux/UNIX
    boxes (assuming your mappings are set up right) handle 
    MouseWheel signals:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=619826360
     
    Dave gives us neat code to query or set the state of the caps,
    num and scroll lock keys on Windows:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=620195160
        

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://dev.scriptics.com/resource/

    They also keep info to convince your boss Tcl is a good thing
        http://dev.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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