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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/


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