Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 10:49:18 -0600 (CST) Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Jan 2) To: Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com George Peter Staplin contributes an oval, as opposed to square, button http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=710252185 'Want [incr Tcl] thread-safe? David Gravereaux shows what's involved http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=710032218 Jeffrey, Sven, and Keith solicit progress with the new XFree anti-aliasing system http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=710524394 Ulrich hints at success in combining Tcl and Qt http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=709786723 Raja S. illuminates our [incr Tcl] discussions with salient highlights of the history of exceptions http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=707412222 David H. Bigelow supplies a tutorial on Tk graphing (presumably this will move to the Wiki soon ...) http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=709165474 XML, Sybase, proprietary databases, JSP--Tcl (and Tom Poindexter) does (do) it all http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=706682843 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/ Mark Harrison publishes summaries of Tcl Core Team (TCT) activity http://tcltk.com/docs/tct/ 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.