Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 10:18:09 -0600 (CST)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Mar  8)
From: Bill Schongar <bschonga@cisco.com>
To: Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com

    ActiveState announces Tcl as a supported scripting language, 
    adding to the already supported versions of Perl and Python.
    Additionally, Andreas Kupries has joined ActiveState's staff,
    where he and Jeff Hobbs will undoubtably hatch some complex 
    plot to get Tcl noticed even more...
        http://www.ActiveState.com/Initiatives/Tcl.html
        http://www.activestate.com/Corporate/Communications/Releases/Press982865992.html
    
    Jeff Godfrey announces tkSokoban, which sounds like a health food
    but is in fact a tcl/tk version of the Sokoban puzzle
    game. There's also an in-progress experiment somewhat like
    the old "Asteroids" game.. without the asteroids. Take some
    free time and go play!
        http://www.iland.net/~jgodfrey/
    
    Ioi suggests the creation of a shared SourceForge project for
    small Tcl projects, to avoid the overkill of spending more time
    setting up the SF project than writing the Tcl code...
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=eee87a9359aa7cc
      
    Trying to find the width and/or height of text characters on a canvas? 
    The 'bbox' command is what you're looking for...
    
    Ryan Casey announces PortMon, for checking port status:
        http://cardtable.sourceforge.net/tcltk/
      
    Abstract scientific puzzles? Sure, we've got those. Richard
    posts one forwarded to some other groups, and various answers
    and solutions arise.. including ones taken from Douglas Adams,
    though none from Scott Adams ("The answer is Trout, I hope this
    helps.")
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=f3acfb4ddfff15d1
      
    Wondering how to implement a linear filter in Tcl? Well someone
    was, and wanted to see how it could be made faster.  Minor
    variations provided a 4x increase, so whether you're looking
    for performance tips or are considering writing an image filter,
    you may want to review of the suggestions in this thread:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=51a2d3a81ae62197
      
    All aboard! Richard takes the train.. and puts it online for other
    folks to mess about with the code for this animated amusement. Some
    would-be engineers reported that the train can crash, and the
    derailment on the line was later corrected:
        http://mini.net/cgi-bin/wikit/1329.html
    
    Always wanted to be a Rocket Scientist? NASA is looking for a Tcl/Tk
    developer at the Goddard Space Flight Center. You should know OO
    programming in C and Tcl, along with a few other requirements:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=79ddd0bf30868483
      

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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