Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 08:04:05 -0600 (CST) Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Jan 15) From: Andrej Vckovski <andrej.vckovski@netcetera.ch> To: Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com Through an administrative oversight/experiment, this week's edition is a joint production of Andrej Vckoski and Richard Suchenwirth. Quote of the Week by Cameron Laird: "Tcl is this really cool technology toolbox. It's got all sorts of pieces inside. It probably makes sense for no one to use all of them, but all of them are good for someone." You do know, don't you, that Tcl "was built purely for [John Ousterhout's] personal use"? http://www.linuxmonth.com/issue4/articles/linuxtalk/linuxtalk.html Ioi Lam launches two threads on deployment issues: "Where should DLLs be installed?" and "Is pkg_mkIndex really needed?" http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=713181992 http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=713182052 A few methods to get a full dump of the call stack. Useful for extending errorInfo's content when debugging. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=713727409 Scott Redman lets us know what he is up to and reveals interesting information about a product that uses Tcl. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=713410563 David Cuthbert announces Kanga Tcl, the first experimental "batteries included" distribution (WinNT binaries) http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=714806790 Ryan P. Casey contributes animated GIFs in pure Tcl http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=714554226 A long thread on MacOS, AppleEvents, sockets & pipes http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=712244590 Todd Helfter shows how to return an Oratcl cursor http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=713129549 Donal K. Fellows adds to hash tables from C http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=713705619 Markus Pietrek brainstorms about Tcl/Qt http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=709657467 George Petasis shows how to embed tkcon consoles http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=714415803 Bob Techentin demonstrates linked listboxes http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=714227410 and has good experiences with the tcltest package http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=714537191 For the Newbies: The danger of naming a procedure argument 'args' and not being aware of the latter's special semantics. Check out this example! http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=714663336 lreplace might be very expensive on large lists because Tcl has to re-allocate a lot of memory if the list is a so-called shared Tcl object. There are, however, tricks to avoid a list object being considered as shared. http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=715146486 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.