Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 19:58:58 -0600 (CST) Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Feb 20) From: Bill Schongar <bschonga@cisco.com> To: Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com Will Duquette announces "trycatch" 2.0, for simple exception handling on top of 'catch'. Have a look: http://www.wjduquette.com/tcl Tom Wilkason announces snackAmp, an MP3 player for all the platforms that Snack runs on: http://members.home.net/tfwilkason/tcl/snackAmp/index.htm Going in circles? If not, maybe you need a better canvas item rotation procedure, courtesy of Shawn and Donal: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=canvas+polygon+rotation+tcl&seld=929499766&ic=1 Looking for AniGif, the pure Tcl animated Gif controller? It's moved to a new home: http://members.nbci.com/cardtable/tcltk/ Have a heart! Or, well, a drawing or animation of one.. all done in Tcl, of course.. http://mini.net/cgi-bin/wikit/1257.html Tcl Advocacy - let other people know about the things you've done with Tcl, or just things you've run across. Here's the thread, run with it! http://groups.google.com/groups?th=c7f0465fab49e6f2&ic=1 Marty Backe made it easier to find stuff that's been wiki'd with his Tcl Wiki Indexer (say that 10 times fast, it sounds funny): http://www.lucidway.org/tclwiki Chengye Mao announces a heavily updated version of XBIT4W, an image do-all tool for Tcl Windows environments, now fortified with OpenGL: http://www.geocities.com/~chengye/soft.html David Welton shows us the press release for the Apache Tcl project, so go read it and then go help out: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=apache+tcl+press+release&rnum=1&seld=926597611&ic=1 George Staplin announces Ctext, an overloaded text widget with highlight, copy, cut and paste commands: http://www.xmission.com/~georgeps/ctext/ Some discussion and worries on whether other repositories like SourceForge will suffer the same fate as Deja.com: http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=f8ed931d0122d6c5 Faster Tcl! No, really... Miguel Sofer announces a modified Tcl bytecode engine available for alpha testing: http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=3c5714a4da5ab227 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/ Brent Welch maintains "The Tcl Developer Xchange", a highly organized resource center of documents and software with provisions for individuals to "set up a link to your software and update ... as you release new versions." 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.