From: Bob Techentin <techentin.robert@mayo.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl.announce
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Jun 13)
Date: 13 Jun 2000 09:24:10 -0700

    In a serious coup for open source software support, Alain Zuur asked
    about getting beautiful document graphics from the BLT graph widget. 
    Some discussion ensued, including bitmap resolutions and postscript
    conversion.  But within just a few days, George A. Howlett reported
    that he had enhanced the BLT package to generate Windows Metafiles for
    inclusion into "that platform's" word processors.
        http://deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=631059599
    
    Todd M. Helfter announced a Oratcl 2.7, which has significant
    performance benefits from a Tcl_Obj implementation.  Oratcl 2.7 is
    available from the Ajuba CVS repository. 
        http://deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=629577307
    
    Richard Suchenwirth's succinct response about loading character sets
    highlights the power of Tcl for international application development. 
        http://deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=632037320
    
    George Peter Staplin asks about mixing Xlib drawing with Tk widgets.
    He gets some good advice, and even threatens to write the book. 
        http://deja.com/viewthread.xp?AN=631946472
    
    Eric Melski's announcement of Tcl/Tk 8.4a1
        http://x76.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=631956987
    spawns several discussions including Jeff Hobbs' "Itcl in the core"
        http://deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=632804847
    thread and a discussion about new widgets in the core 
        http://deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=632514818

    The discussion heated up a bit between the Ajuba "core team" and
    "the community" 
        http://deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=632804847
        http://deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=632861955
    This evolved into "The Future of Tcl", thanks to a thoughtful
    vector from Matt Newman 
        http://deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=633241136
    and a "Community participation in Tcl development" thread started
    by Paul Duffin 
        http://deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=633001852
    
    Speaking of Itcl, "[Incr Tcl] in the core" had several of its own
    discussions, including a FAQ posted by Mark Harrison (for which I
    cannot find a deja reference) and a discussion of "Itcl
    Improvements" 
        http://deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=631697230
    
    In a flame-free thread titled "Tcl vs Python"
        http://deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=632163524
    Paul Duffin posted a description of "The Tcl Way"
        http://deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=633053837
    and A.M. Kuchling posted "The Python Way" 
        http://deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=633504433
    
    sig-of-the-week:
    cory hamasaki  Still not able to write Tcl but strangely
        willing to wade in on design issues.
    

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

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        http://www.egroups.com/list/tcl_announce/


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