Tcl-URL! for November 6th, 2000

Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 08:24:58 -0600 (CST)
From: Cameron Laird claird@neosoft.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Nov 6)

Frédéric Bonnet posts an important update on the status of TkGS
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=688816476

Dan Porter carefully updates a minimal example of Tk as a C-bound GUI toolkit
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=690166368

Jeffrey Hobbs released 8.4a2 at 4 Nov 2000 01:43:17 GMT. It took until 04 Nov 2000 00:03:28 PST and 04 Nov 2000 14:13:10 CET for Jean-Claude Wippler and Jean-Luc Fontaine to announce a TclKit and Tcl RPMs based on 8.4a2. Slackers
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=689526692
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=689583107

Dan Kuchler nicely illustrates use of stored procedures through tclodbc
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=687634868

Several people make substantive contributions to a thread on "event generation" of wide applicability
http://deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=689038533

Chengye Mao sketches an answer to the faq about programmatic mixes of X and Tk
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=688948030

Mike Clarkson explains important aspects of KDE plumbing
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=689301254

TclPro opens
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tclpro

Koen Van Damme publishes helpful articles on Tcl objects and "Data File Formats ..."
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=688386938

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/

Scriptics maintains a highly organized Tcl resource center
http://dev.scriptics.com/resource/

They also keep info to convince your boss Tcl is a good thing
http://dev.scriptics.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/

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