From: Bill Schongar <bschonga@cisco.com> Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Jun 6) Date: 6 Jun 2000 06:59:45 -0500 What's in a name? Ask "Ajuba", formerly known as Scriptics. Comments, concerns, and rationale abounds: http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=625731613 and http://www.ajubasolutions.com Bubble, bubble, toil and... umm, sort? An implementation of a bubble sort in Tcl, with some curiosities on ways to improve it (or ecexution speed in general): http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=625817031 Frederic Bonnet announces a new "Dictionary" object for Tcl, described as a byhrid between arrays and lists which preserves the internal has table, improving performance. http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=626306323 Download the source at: http://www.purl.org/net/bonnet/pub/dictionary.tar.gz Will Duquette announces version 2 of a Tcl-based macro expansion tool. (No, it's not for writing VBS-based viruses..) http://www.wjduquette.com/expand What you need to do HTTPS with Tcl, from a couple different angles: http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=627522952 Jean-Luc Fontaine announces both BLT2.4 RPMs for RedHat and a new version of moodss (which requires BLT): BLT RPMs: http://jfontain.free.fr/blt-2.4s-1.i386.rpm http://jfontain.free.fr/blt-2.4s-1.i386.spec Moodss: http://jfontain.free.fr/moodss-11.3.tar.gz http://jfontain.free.fr/moodss-11.3-1.i386.rpm http://jfontain.free.fr/moodss-11.3-1.spec How will it all be resolved? Thoughts on namespace resolution when Itcl is involved: http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=626596607 Andreas Otto announces an update to his commercial Tcl compiler: http://home.t-online.de/home/aotto/comp-main_E.html Frederic Bonnet announces version 2.0 of a Tcl exception and error handling package: http://www.purl.org/net/bonnet/Tcl/TclExcept/index.htm What starts out as a simple question on dynamic variable names (var$1 through var$n) becomes an analysis on the possible methods and pitfalls of getting and setting those types of values: http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=626733858 Break out your secret Base64 encoder/decoder rings, Tcl-cadets: http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=626766895 George Staplin announces a new version of Aged, a Tcl/Tk programming editor: http://www.xmission.com/~georgeps/aged/ Harald Kirsch announces bras 0.99.5, a rule-based command tool somewhat similar to 'make': http://wsd.iitb.fhg.de/~kir/brashome/ There's something to be said for being willing to share... memory, that is. A pointer to accessing shared memory through Tcl: http://www.tclfaq.wservice.com/tcl-faq/part5.html What kind of state is your extension in? Well, ask it! Queries on maintaining states with your extensions, and what API functions to link to to ensure it works: http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=628773035 Is it wrong to be conservative? Some folks are wondering about the default CFLAGS used when compiling Tcl: http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=629101529 Carsten's looking for other interested folks to discuss building real games in Tcl, and what kinds of widgets or interfaces to other APIs would help those type of efforts. Lots of neat pointers in this thread, especially to other packages compatible with Tcl: http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=629128641 A few proposals on new clock commands for ISO formatting and other such fun things: http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=629369199 Johannes Zellner announces Entity 0.6, an XML application framework: http://entity.evilplan.org/ Jeff announces an update to the tclbench CVS collection, now with 179 benchmarking tests and new command line options: http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=629711956 Don Porter announces package 0.0, a drop-in replacement for 'package' containing lots of the enhancements discussed in c.l.t. over the past few months: http://math.nist.gov/~DPorter/tcltk/package/ The European User Meeting final schedule has been posted, and is available at: http://www.tu-harburg.de/skf/tcltk Jim Ingham, now a resident of Steve Jobs-land, provides some neat information on Tcl and compatibility with MacOS-X: http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=630305722 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/ 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. 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