From: Stuart Cassoff <stwo@sympatico.ca> To: Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Oct 6) Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 19:43:09 -0500 (CDT) QOTW: "The fastest route from one bit of your brain to the other is often out your mouth and back in through your ears!" "When in doubt, consider 'clever' a pejorative." "I've been reading the TIP's on list operations and I have to say that when lassign, lset (and possibly head/tail) are implemented, Tcl will be a *superb* list processing language." Peter DeRijk gives us Tcl Database Interface: "A generic Tcl interface for accessing different SQL databases." Very nice, but I still can't read my Pfs:File phonebook! :( http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3BB45A81.7620B60B%40fujitsu-siemens.com&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D25%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl%26start%3D150%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl *Programming Linux Games* is a new book which features Tcl. A just-released excerpt shows how to build a simple scripting engine and design a game script. http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1420/urmb29/book29.htm New! Alpha Tk::MDI (Multiple Document Interface) Personally I've never tried it, but I've only heard good things. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=9p1tmi%241e75%241%40agate.berkeley.edu&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D25%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl%26start%3D125%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl TIP #64: Improvements to Windows Font Handling This one's turning out to be a little tricky so give Chris a hand. I can only do so by way of applause. http://groups.google.com/groups?start=125&group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=pgpmoose.200109280720.1845%40non.non.net http://groups.google.com/groups?th=8a05133ef8d41599 http://groups.google.com/groups?th=a5390b812ce34a40 Some details of threading are still being worked out. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=6t59rtg5mfdhvcrf4nmcqauiipmdrq6tte%404ax.com&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D25%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl%26start%3D125%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl TIP #63: Add -compound Option to Menu Entries http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3BB4C837.E58C03D2%40pinebush.com&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D25%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl%26start%3D125%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl Vincent Wartelle announces zdoc.tcl, a doc generator for tcl. Not for me - I rely on 75-char variable names for documentation. http://groups.google.com/groups?start=125&group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=3BB4D745.9DFB150B%40oklin.com http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=pgpmoose.200110041318.22824%40non.non.net http://groups.google.com/groups?th=cd2d87db9750df8b What is legal status of icons from tclpro? http://groups.google.com/groups?th=64ddc6fc182f2f4b NEW 'tclapps' module. Also new Tk interface to the Tcler's chat. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3bb50713%240%243842%40echo-01.iinet.net.au&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D25%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl%26start%3D125%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl Expect on Win NT development continues http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=rjubrtk9c3o49bfpag2jde20k3d10adc7l%404ax.com&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D25%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl%26start%3D100%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl Moodss has a shorter release cycle than my grandfather. Jean-Luc Fontaine cranks it up a notch to 14.6 http://groups.google.com/groups?start=100&group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=3BB84C88.2020905%40winealley.com TIP #34: Modernize TEA build system. http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3BB8FE19.2A859C52%40nospam.com&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D25%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl%26start%3D75%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl Euro symbol encoding continued http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3BB94481.A0ED5F1E%40ActiveState.com&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D25%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl%26start%3D75%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl Namespaces and packages http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3bb99e31%240%24223%244d4ebb8e%40businessnews.de.uu.net&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D25%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl%26start%3D75%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=95673e59.0110020623.28e9cf59%40posting.google.com&prev=/groups%3Fnum%3D25%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl%26start%3D75%26group%3Dcomp.lang.tcl Dynamic generation of TCL code within TCL code continued http://groups.google.com/groups?th=5f6aee89df42e920 TIP #65: Enhanced [info args] http://groups.google.com/groups?start=50&group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=pgpmoose.200110021039.2212%40non.non.net Mac server socket port 0 continued http://groups.google.com/groups?th=2b11ae4d8dfdc320 Binary Tcl/Tk 8.3.3 distro for WinNT/Alpha available http://groups.google.com/groups?th=1dc3e8a00f97941e TIP #66: questions surrounding embedded and standalone Tcl http://groups.google.com/groups?start=25&group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=3BBC4812.45F9A86C%40wldelft.nl Thread your grep. (And I wonder why non computer people can't understand me) http://groups.google.com/groups?th=b59fc476de95157a Preparing for Tcl/Tk 8.3.4 http://groups.google.com/groups?start=25&group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=3BBBDC80.72B1A6AE%40ActiveState.com 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.purl.org/net/tcl-welcome 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. 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.