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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/


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