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 23)
Date:	 Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:46:27 -0500 (CDT)

Quote of the week, courtesy of Jeff Hobbs in one of many replies to
many questions this week in comp.lang.tcl on using threads with Tcl:
    "Of course, when you need threads, you need threads (just make
    sure you need threads)."

    Feeling insecure? Perhaps you should be. Linux Weekly News posted a
    security alert against Tcl's default runtime library search path:
        http://lwn.net/daily/con-tcltk.php3

    Parlez-vous français? David Zolli announces "Le Portail tcl/tk
    Francophon", a tcl/tk portal for our French-speaking friends. Read the
    announcement, or just jump straight to the site.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=169540fc82230e67,1
        http://www.larochelle-innovation.com/tcltk/

    Activestate starts delivering the goods with the release of ActiveTcl
    8.3.3.2. Announcement. Link. You know the drill.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=3e534cfb288d2e60,36
        http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/ActiveTcl/More
    
    Has Tcllib reached the 1.0 milestone? Thane Reaver askes the question
    in comp.lang.tcl, and offers congratulatory back-patting. Although
    Tcllib 1.0 isn't yet available on sourceforge, the aforementioned
    ActiveTcl 8.3.3.2 release notes lists Tcllib 1.0 as part of the
    ActiveTcl release.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&safe=off&th=caddf23c4eefca9,1
    
    BWidgets finally has an official distribution at sourceforge, with
    some bug fixes thrown in for good measure. Here's the announcement,
    and a link to the sourceforge project. The third link is to a thread
    on comp.lang.tcl titled "Bwidget Experiences?", which might be useful
    if you are thinking about using BWidgets.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=46b62518d9b6eded,3
        http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcllib/
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=4b2e88a29a13073,13
    
    Paul Welton announced  the availability of the TSIPP Workbench.
    According to the announcement, "The TSIPP Workbench is an
    interactive program which allows 3D images, animations, and Tk
    widgets to be created using TSIPP, a graphical toolkit developed
    by Mark Diekhans.". Sounds cool to me.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?th=79a1b9317cebf3ac,1
    

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/
    The Xchange sponsor also keeps info to convince your boss Tcl
    is a good thing
        http://tcl.activestate.com/scripting/

    The Tcl'ers Wiki is a huge, dynamic, collaboratively edited repository
    of documentation, examples, tutorials and pontifications on all things Tcl.
        http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/wiki/0.html
    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

    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

    Google Groups archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts
	http://groups.yahoo.com/group/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://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lang.tcl  

Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome.

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