From: Bill Schongar <bschonga@cisco.com>
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (May 16)
Date: 16 May 2000 11:45:24 -0700

    Features and benchmarks and packages, oh my!
    
    FEATURE CHANGE POLL: Jeff asks for feedback on
    changes to certain error cases in 8.4, so
    make sure you get your opinion in!
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=621373363
    
    Andrej Vckovsk and Byron Servies largely conclude that
    service of arbitrary client-generated scripts is best
    assigned through process management
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=622703941

    Large integer math with strings? Well, maybe. 
    Discussions on representing ratios, arbitrarily large
    integers, and other fun numbers in string format:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=620776110
    
    A question on hiding things on the canvas bring up the reminder
    that 8.3 has some useful canvas features, including : 
    '$canvas itemconfigure myitem -state hidden' and 
    '$canvas itemconfig myitem -state normal'
    
    Silicon Valley Tcl Users Group (SVTUG) meeting is
    scheduled for Tuesday, May 16 at the Cygnus 
    offices in Sunnyvale, 7pm to 8:30.
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=623823826
    
    What's up, KDE dock? Suggestions on docking Tk
    applications in a Gnome or KDE panel, and possibly
    telling what type of desktop is running:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=621532379
    
    What is real? Or real numbers, anyway..  a regular
    expression for validating a number in scientific notation:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=622288216
      
    
    Packages, updates and such
    --
    
    Jeff Hobbs announces the release of the re-written 
    Tcl benchmarks in CVS form, as well as results of the
    benchmarks from Tcl 7.4 to Tcl 8.4a1:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=621342964
    
    Tkprint 1.1 now has bugfix 3 available to remove the 
    'no options = no printing' problem some folks encountered:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=620804327
    
    tkBuilder patched with version 102a to fix several
    known bugs in tkBuilder 1.0.2
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=621102048
    
    Andreas Otto updates his Tcl compiler with a new
    framework to integrate the components:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=620704968
      
    George announces an initial Drag and Drop extension
    for Window and Unix. Get it at:
        http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/~petasis/tcl
    
    Version 1.3 of the Mentry (multi-entry widget) package
    is now available, and pure Tcl:
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=621714441
      
    Image 1.0 is a windows extension that provides image 
    processing functions without the need for Tk. (CGI
    or automated programs, anyone?):
        http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=623075990
        

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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