From: "Cameron Laird" <claird@neosoft.com> To: Dr.Dobb's.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (May 13) Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 14:43:31 -0500 (CDT) QOTW: "There are 23 of us. We just have a large number of aliases and like chatting with ourselves on usenet." J.M. Ivler, in response to a question about the number of Tcl users world-wide "Yeah, the HCW docs make little sense until you've read the base RTF spec (at least the first couple of sections). After you've read the base RTF spec, you'll see that the tags don't make any sense at all. RTF, especially WINHELP-style RTF, is the most astonishingly awful file format I have ever seen." -Joe English Donal Fellows explains a favorite idiom for interpreter aliases. http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&th=f7213c59b258727f&seekm=3CDA3DB7.E61A0016%40cs.man.ac.uk#link11 The problems of concurrency and reentrancy: =========================================== An interesting thread covering what it is safe to do in event "proc"s, specifically relating to filevents, but rapidly became more general. Kevin Kenny has posted a wonderful article Update Considered Harmful" on the Wiki: http://mini.net/tcl/UpdateConsideredHarmful Thread at: http://groups.google.com/groups?th=603f96ab20f8ca91 The power of the grid manager: ============================== Basic window management, that wasn't, and then was again... http://groups.google.com/groups?th=90e7ccdc9e191e9e Documentation, proof that people are never happy: ================================================= The Tcl documentation is now available in original "Windows Help" format. This was something that many people had requested, and curiously many of those same people derided the shortcomings of the format once it was provided. Still a great job, available at: http://tmml.sourceforge.net/tcl-help.zip Thread at: http://groups.google.com/groups?th=aa64b758f97b379d Incidentally, the manual pages are available as a portable Tk application. http://groups.google.com/groups?q=hv+tkhtml+group:comp.lang.tcl*&hl=en&scoring=d&selm=jcw-C11B38.15402208052002%40news1.xs4all.nl&rnum=1 The standard debates on programmer population and licensing: ============================================================ "I'm not dead yet" http://groups.google.com/groups?th=79e12542e0b61ee http://groups.google.com/groups?th=e52d3e9e1650b51c New releases: ============= multixterm is really cool. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=57b7e001ba07e33d The totally wonderful moods got released twice; first to 15.14 then to 16, we can hardly keep up... Still all available at: http://jfontain.free.fr/ e4graph was updated and is now at its final alpha release: http://sourceforge.net/projects/e4graph/ pbForth (TCL, forth and Lego, woohoo) was updated: http://www.hempeldesigngroup.com/lego/pbForth/download.htm Privaria an interesting implementation of peer-to-peer networking: http://www.privaria.org BWidgets version 1.4 (part of tcllib) which has been largely stable in CVS for a while, was released: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcllib/ 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://www.tcl-tk.net/resource/ The Xchange sponsor also keeps info to convince your boss Tcl is a good thing http://www.tcl-tk.net/scripting/ The Tcl'ers Wiki is a huge, dynamic, collaboratively edited repository of documentation, examples, tutorials and pontifications on all things Tcl. http://wiki.tcl.tk/0 For the ideal overview of the topics about Tcl most likely to interest a newcomer, see "Arts and Crafts ..." http://wiki.tcl.tk/969 ActiveState Tools maintains a Cookbook of Tcl recipes http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Tcl 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.