Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 16:42:50 -0600 (CST) Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Feb 26) From: Bill Schongar <bschonga@cisco.com> To: Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com Donal Fellows nominates Jamey Cribbs' for "post of the month": "Here's one of the coolest things I like so far about Tcl. Being able to develop a compact, modern-looking GUI based client/server app going against an SQL DBMS that will run identically on Windoze and Linux, and being able to wrap it up in a small executable (using the awesome Freewrap) that is easy to distribute. And, oh yeah, the people on the newsgroups seem to be very helpful and friendly so far. . . . [I]t is incredible. Talk about a VB killer AND a great scripting language all rolled into one." A new pure Tcl Tree widget with drag and drop support is announced for the world to play with (yes, it's a pure numeric URL..): http://64.34.162.237 Chris Cox announces a new version of ImPress, a Tcl based desktop publishing/presentation package with all sorts of fun options: http://www.ntlug.org/~ccox/impress/ Wait, vwait, vwait.. but what if you're vwaiting for the wrong thing? Don and Cameron hash out a small proc to cleanly wait for any of multiple variables to be set: http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=df77aced143fb609 Where to go for news now that Deja has gone? Well, besides Google there's now also one running TclNNTPD, a new open-source Tcl NNTP server. Check them both out: http://www.utcorp.net/opensource/tclnntpd/ http://www.utcorp.net/opensource/freeusenet/ You've got mail... well, sorta. Wait, where'd the SMTP processing utility go? Oh, here it is... in tclLib. And some discussion: http://tcllib.sourceforge.net/ http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=6d8bdd567b45d2 The thread - "Amusing misconceptions about Tcl". 'Nuff said. http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=cd8559176e0311c9 Macintosh extension writers? Yes, Virginia, they do exist.. and they have some questions. Follow the thread here: http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=6da6622fd0aa307c Jean-Luc announces the first version of tclpython, and asks everyone to give it a try and see what they think. Some other discussion on what can be embedded within Tcl ensues... http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=cb665dd59d1b1de Microsoft's .NET and Tcl - discussion, hints at developments, and more discussion: http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=d3fd3d3669ef3245 Larry's wondering how everyone manages all the myriad Tcl versions on their servers and in their environments. Add your input... http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=15531af732bb2c41 Looking for an XML Schema validator? TclDOMPro may be the answer.. http://sourceforge.net/projects/tclxml Tom Wilkason answers questions on methods for binding and filtering keyboard input: http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=a4200d2d7eb1398e Trying to make syslog entries through Tcl? Beam up Scotty, because it has what you're looking for... http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~schoenw/scotty/ Benjamin Cassan-de Gorostarzu announces vTclCheck, a graphical interface for the TclPro ProCheck utility: http://vtclcheck.sourceforge.net 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.