Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 08:27:05 -0600 (CST) Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Nov 6) From: Cameron Laird <claird@neosoft.com> Frédéric Bonnet posts an important update on the status of TkGS http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=688816476 Dan Porter carefully updates a minimal example of Tk as a C-bound GUI toolkit http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=690166368 Jeffrey Hobbs released 8.4a2 at 4 Nov 2000 01:43:17 GMT. It took until 04 Nov 2000 00:03:28 PST and 04 Nov 2000 14:13:10 CET for Jean-Claude Wippler and Jean-Luc Fontaine to announce a TclKit and Tcl RPMs based on 8.4a2. Slackers http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=689526692 http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=689583107 Dan Kuchler nicely illustrates use of stored procedures through tclodbc http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=687634868 Several people make substantive contributions to a thread on "event generation" of wide applicability http://deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=689038533 Chengye Mao sketches an answer to the faq about programmatic mixes of X and Tk http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=688948030 Mike Clarkson explains important aspects of KDE plumbing http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=689301254 TclPro opens http://sourceforge.net/projects/tclpro Koen Van Damme publishes helpful articles on Tcl objects and "Data File Formats ..." http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=688386938 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.