From:	 "Bryan Oakley" <boakley@austin.rr.com>
To:	 Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Jul 10)
Date:	 Tue, 10 Jul 2001 18:45:21 -0500 (CDT)

unofficial Quote of the week:
"One of my favorite features of Tcl-URL is the Quote-of-the-week. I wonder
if the Tcl-URL editor ever has to make them up because he couldn't find a
suitable quote?"
                --anonymous

    A simple question on the XBM image format keeps Richard Suchenwirth
    up all weekend inventing a new way to create images on the fly. Does
    this guy ever sleep on the weekends? Start in comp.lang.tcl, then
    wander over to the wiki:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=f685b7ec27557fae,7
        http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/wiki/1847

    This week saw the introduction, and sometimes lengthy discussion of,
    several new TIPs, including:
    TIP 39 Add New Standard Tk Option: -component
         http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=2e83ab4b1a5d5b9b,5
    TIP 40 Documentation Generator for Tcl Scripts
         http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=5e4227824d26487d,7
    TIP 41 Paned Window Tk Widget
         http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=b0985d964b471995,36
    TIP 42 Add New Standard Tk Option: -clientdata
         http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=def9ecf2bb3e5f41,20
    Join in the discussion on comp.lang.tcl and help shape the future
    of Tcl!
    TIP archive:
        http://tcl.activestate.com/cgi-bin/tct/tip/

    For those who use BWidgets and are struggling with how to create
    new widgets, Jos Decoster wrote a nifty little tutorial that has
    been immortalized on the wiki:
        http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/wiki/

    From the "it ain't rocket science, but it sure is useful to me"
    dept. comes a thread on default proc arguments. It covers some
    of the not-so-obvious aspects of this feature of defining
    argument lists.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=2394f4681803f708,12

    When is abs(-1) 1.0 instead of the integer value 1? Read the gory
    details about a surprising side effect of the byte code compiler
    ("shimmering hell", as penned by DKF) here:
        http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=863ce22ded63032c,12


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/

    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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