Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 10:40:11 -0500 (CDT) Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Apr 2) From: "Tom Wilkason" <tom.wilkason@home.com> To: Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com Two Tcl newcomers supply QOTWs (for a sufficiently large value of "week"): Griff Miller testifies, "I am a newcomer to Tcl/Tk (started on Monday) and already I have a nice working application. I am really enjoying the speed at which I can get a usable GUI." Sam Aaron summarizes: "2 years C++, 1 year Java, 1 week Tcl and I already know what side i'm on :-) ... [A]fter just one week, the man pages and Ousterhout's book, I have started programming an XML parser, and also completed 50% of a GUI (agent authoring tool) using the Tool-kit. It's like a breath of fresh air after C++ and Java!" George Peter Staplin announces 'Panache', an X Window System window manager that includes a workspace manager, CPU monitor and more. Find it at http://www.xmission.com/~georgeps/panache/ Akos Polster requests volunteers to help complete a Tcl port to Windows CE. More info is available at http://www.akos.uklinux.net/tclce/readme.txt. Reach Akos can be reached at mailto:akos@pipacs.com. Interested in mixing Tk and Xt in your application? Check out the wiki entry at http://mini.net/cgi-bin/wikit/1381.html or a discussion of the issues on the TCL NG http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&ic=1&th=d60a3adc579d6a40 Running out of memory with large datasets? Read http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&ic=1&th=9615=3173cb3be1db for issues and a work-around by Dennis LaBelle. Confused over command line options with Expect scripts? Donal Fellows, Bruce Hartweg, Andreas Kupries and other suggest solutions http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&ic=1&th=16f0=004b22959406 Larry Smith and others discuss methods to enhance or replace built-in procedures with one of your own by the same name, look no further than http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&ic=1&th=1ddf=d9713cf11dfe Tcl-based CRON jobs giving you grief? http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&ic=1&th=7634=282c948877eb discusses hints and debugging procedures. A wiki page http://mini.net/cgi-bin/wikit/1382.html = offers more permanent help. Getting wrapped around the axle with Unicode in your Tcl Objects? David, Jeff and other discuss a few of the issues in ://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&ic=1&th=f114=187180d95cb2 A new version announced, and concerns raised about the possible splintering of Tix, a popular Tcl/Tk package. Hopefully re-convergence can be established soon. http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&ic=1&th=17b7=f66ec717c808 Richard Suchenwirth continues to demonstrate his TK prowess with an animated postcard from Switzerland at http://mini.net/cgi-bin/wikit/1369.html. Want to add 3D Boxes or buttons to your Tk canvas widget? Discussion and working code available http://mini.net/cgi-bin/wikit/1383.html http://mini.net/cgi-bin/wikit/1380.html. Sleepy Cat Software, maker of the Berkeley DB, has offered to highlight Open Source uses of their database product. Any Tcl users of this DB should respond to Sleepy Cat Marketing Manager Emily Salus mailto:press@sleepycat.com TIP #31 - CVS tags in the Tcl and Tk repositories and TIP #32 - Add Tcl_Obj support to traces were added in the past few weeks. As always, these and all of the TIPs can be found at http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/fellowsd-bin/TIP Jeffrey Hobbs notes that "The Tcl Developer Xchange is currently moving from its old home at Scriptics to a new machine hosted by ActiveState. It's still in transition; if you are interested in assisting in the transition and have some knowledge of tclhttpd and/or AOLServer, contact Jeff Hobbs or Brent Welch. http://tcl.activestate.com/ Look for more announcements on this and related matters next week. 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. 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