Tcl-URL! Weekly Tcl News and Links (Apr 9)
Apr 10, 2002, 01:00 (0 Talkback[s])
During a week in which the Expert Working Group taught Tcl to signal,
"I am towing a submerged object" (at variable speed!), the
QOTW was: "[I]f you need more than 128 different exit codes, you've
probably got the wrong architecture of software." Donal Fellows
"Give one vendor carte blanche without appointing an overseeing
committee of _competent_ staff and you can expect that, at some point,
they're going to cross the power and neutral wires." Rick Kennell
REMINDER: Tcl'2002 Call For Papers deadline: April 28
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=3CAE08EF.F2F0892D%40ActiveState.com
A comparison of Java implemented scripting interpreters.
Jacl does not fare well, but author was using a two year old version!
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=7c1314aefdad8a1a
Embedding Tcl vs Perl.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=2fa2b3aa3180a75a
Embedding Tcl/Tk in MFC, multithreaded with Tk GUI
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=5fe91243996bf7d0
Jeff gives us the details of his recent TEA and project improvements.
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=3CAC1323.6486CEDA%40ActiveState.com
Wcb 2.8 - Widget callback package
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=3CB1F2D9.EBDFDA67%40t-online.de
Tablelist 2.4 - Multi-column listbox package
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=3CB1F2A8.B7A107BA%40t-online.de
Mentry 2.4 - Multi-entry widget package.
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=3CB1F2BE.601E9FF7%40t-online.de
htmlgen and xmlgen 1.0 - Writing HTML with Tcl .
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=4d36de51d1f083b7
FTFTP 0.9 - Fault-Tolerant FTP.
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=3CB10A26.7090005%40spameepatents.com
YAMI - Distributed & network programming lib - now supports Tcl.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=eb6a3b3b846de710
Mats Bengtsson releases a preliminary version of a canvas-to-SVG
accessory.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=a5d1fe84d5836930
Palm Tcl V0.4
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=SvHr8.20868%24nt1.1713598%40newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net
SnackAmp 1.8 - A cross platform Tcl/Tk based Mp3, Ogg Vorbis audio/music
player, playlister and jukebox.
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=988470906a0f85ee
TclStars - A zoomable sky map with 3157 named stars.
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=3cac422d%40spider
NewzPoint - A tabbed layout display of multiple web pages.
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.lang.tcl&selm=pgpmoose.200204030917.17146%40despot.non.net
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.
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