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 Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome. To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday, ask <claird@neosoft.com> to subscribe. Be sure to mention "Tcl-URL!". -- Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://www.ddj.com) is pleased to participate in and sponsor the "Tcl-URL!" project.