Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 04:23:16 -0500 (CDT) Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Aug 14) From: "Hall, Leam" <LHall@rosenbluth.com> Getting documentation for a program is often under-attended or unfunded. Sébastien Barré gives an in-depth comparison of three good parsers that create html documents of existing scripts. http://x67.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=652781752 Neil Zanella shows how to use the Tcl/Tk web plug-in with HTML 4.01 compliant tags. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=655598733 Richard Suchenwirth gives some code that helps Tk users work with Right-to-Left languages: http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=656408532 Richard then follows it up with more links and information: http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=656467247 Don Libes gives a quick way to let Windows (and Mac) users select text in a widget that does not have the focus: http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=656841984 Peter De Rijk poses a question about the development of the new compound list command that leads to a good bit of discussion and comment. Start at: http://deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=655418473 For the Newbies: Dan Kuchler gives a couple example-based pointers on good programming style: http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=656833460 Tom Wilkason solves a problem and explains a little bit about global variables and the upvar command. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=657305473 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. To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday, ask <claird@neosoft.com> to subscribe. Be sure to mention "Tcl-URL!". -- Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://www.ddj.com) is pleased to participate in and sponsor the "Tcl-URL!" project.