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/


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