From:	 kennykb@acm.org (Kevin Kenny)
To:	 Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Jun 11)
Date:	 Mon, 11 Jun 2001 07:48:18 -0500 (CDT)

The 'comp.lang.tcl.announce' newsgroup has suffered from connectivity
problems the past few weeks.  These problems have caused several
postings to fail to arrive at Google.  Thanks to Larry Virden for
pointing out that for the moment, postings to 'comp.lang.tcl.announce'
can be reviewed at:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce?yguid=281362
Thanks also to George Peter Staplin for several of the items below.

Quotes of the week:  Donal Fellows on Tk's method of window creation:
"The current system has the great benefit of working."
    http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=a554fe542a14bf26

Richard Suchenwirth: "My Tcl apps crash less often than do my Window
sessions."
    http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/wiki/1731

    Rolf Ade supplies marvelous and even inspiring detail on the
    events of the Second European Users Meeting
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=7676a55481b257fe
	http://mini.net/tcl/838.html

    Helmut Giese posts another plea for Tcl to support Borland
    compilers.  His site, though, also contains some fine coding
    examples of integrating Tcl with C and C++.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=e45a07284087fc68
        http://www.ratiosoft.com/tcl/borland/

    Ken Jones gives skeleton code to do drag-and-drop within a
    Tk application, including having the icon follow the mouse:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=8b5a3fe9aa0e262d

    Larry Virden started a thread about what is needed to keep Tcl's
    Unicode capabilities in the lead among common processing languages.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=cf1a8a794d5f363e     

    Just for fun, Richard Suchenwirth implements functions to
    format and parse Roman numerals:
        http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/wiki/591

    Jean-Luc Fontaine announces tclperl version 2.3.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=d79be074a7917b47
        http://jfontain.free.fr/tclperl.htm

    Peter G. Baum announces gnocl 0.0.3. gnocl is a Tcl extension
    (package) which implements gtk and gnome widgets.
        http://www.dr-baum.net/gnocl/

    R. D. Findlay inspires a brief discussion about Tk and embedded
    Linux systems 
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=c91e814eded013e3

    Special effects in layout out widgets-in-frames:  wise use of
    pack and grid.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=c63854e923382958

    Tcl offers considerable flexibility in tokenization of a string.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=dabe9f503eac4537

    Why change the stubs table for Tcl_SubstObjCmd()?
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=e3daec8516df28bc

    For the latest in distributed Tcl computing, see
	http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/education/r-ws-wspt.html?n-671


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://tcl.activestate.com/resource/

    For the ideal overview of the topics about Tcl most likely to
    interest a newcomer, see "Arts and Crafts ..."
	http://mini.net/tcl/969.html

    They also keep info to convince your boss Tcl is a good thing
        http://tcl.activestate.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
--in principal.  In spring 2001, though,
  http://www.ddj.com/topics/tclurl/
  http://tcl.activestate.com:8004/tclurl/
are more consistently up-to-date.  A fourth possibility is                 
  http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=~g%20comp.lang.tcl%20Tcl-URL%21

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