Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 13:37:23 -0500 (CDT)
From: Bill Schongar bschonga@cisco.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
Subject: Dr. Dobb’s Tcl-URL! – weekly Tcl news and links (Apr
13)
The volume of Tcl postings rolls on like a Nasdaq tech stock
selloff… Tcl-URL for the week ending April 7, 2000
Where the heck do you get base64 encoding data from, anyway? The
question, and some pointers, including the Wiki page with the
answers:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=605684259
Wiki page:
http://mini.net/cgi-bin/wikit/588.html
Need help printing BLT graphs? Search no further than George’s
details on the ‘printer’ command in BLT:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=606125259
Jean-Luc makes it so with the announcement (and April 9 update
announcement) of new Stubs-enabled version of BLT:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=608835339
Available from:
http://jfontain.free.fr/blt-2.4q-4.i386.rpm
Hint and limitations on using “wm transient” to hide a window’s
title bar in MS Windows:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=605920049
From the “Is anybody out there?” department, Larry has a
question on the UFO project. What is it, you ask? Your first guess
probably isn’t far off the mark – it’s a project to maintain
packages whose maintainers have mysteriously vanished..
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=605981390
Main URL:
http://ufo.sourceforge.net
Going once… going twice… but can you track it in Tcl? A
request from Larry to see if anyone’s working on an Ebay auction
watcher. I don’t know, first UFOs, now this.. it’s a
conspiracy!
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=606004356
Building your own Tcl interpreter.. is it a server, a parser, or
just a way to pass the time? Options and thoughts ranging from
Tcl-Httpd to TclEval, (and its dangers) and more.:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=606006085
Connecting procedures and variables in an Object-Oriented
manner. That’s todays topic, now let’s hit those busy phones:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=606073522
Want to help with a neat emerging image-processing package? Have
access to a compiler? Then you’re one of the folks Eben would
really like to hear from:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=606106930
Refreshing our memories as to how you send escape characters in
Tcl, DJ serves up the basics:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=606304438
Emily Post? Strunk and White? Nope, it’s a style guide for the
rest of us, minding our manners with spacing and bracing:
http://dev.scriptics.com/doc/styleGuide.pdf
Macs love long filenames. So why can’t we share that love
through Tcl? A request and some thoughts from Tcl Mac folks:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=606735776
Trying to release your Tcl code as a single binary? Waiting for
the latest and greatest version of freeWrap to do it with? Your
wait is over, get version 4.1 now:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=606364747
Or directly from:
http://home.nycap.rr.com/dlabelle/freewrap/freewrap.html
More on the image processing front, with a new version of XBit
up for consumption:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=606379457
If binary things instead are strings, is conversion needed (this
query pings)? Get the dirt on Tcl_Obj vs string implementation, and
how it may affect sharing data between C, Tcl, and Blt or other
extensions:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=606448681
Alright, all of you line up based on how tall your grandchildren
are. Err, well, no not really. But while sorting lists by some
relation other than the first element causes confusion, there’s
help on the way:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=606477263
Get in on the ground floor: a pre-release of a Japanese/
English/German dictionary application in need of some testers:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=606482882
Highlighting selected text, and moving between applications.
Feasible? Sure. Exactly what you might expect? Well, maybe:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=606880149
Like nested Russian boxes, putting a proc in a proc in a.. well,
you get the idea. Now learn why you should discard that idea, even
though it may work:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=606933198
How’s your HTML? Why not Tcl decide? Ways to validate HTML
through Tcl procs, and even XML, depending on your needs:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=606996557
Tracking the status of machines through Tcl – can it be done?
Some thoughts on keeping your network running:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=607045712
Want a Braintwister? How about tracing dynamic variables?
Richard wants to see where this will lead:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=607127122
Dealing with binary data across sockets, in all sorts of
combinations. Problems, proposals, and possibilities:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=607209812
“Where in the world is John Ousterhout”, a new graphical game by
Michael McLennan. Well, ok, not really. But, lots of people are
wondering about geographic maps within Tk canvases. Have any
input?
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=607677243
And you thought regular expressions were fun before? Try Visual
Regexp, and see if you have better luck than George. Also, judge
for yourself whether strange cloning experiments going on at
Scriptics using Jeff’s DNA:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=607953806
Hungry? Well, it is time for another Snack… Kare announces the
latest and greatest version of Snack, v1.7beta2:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=607998867
Or directly from:
http://www.speech.kth.se/snack/
Sometimes, Widgets like to have their picture taken. Using the
Window ID, see how to put xwd or BLT to the task:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=608102075
The library is open! Tcllib is released in a non-CVS form for
general download and use. Have at it!
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=608193094
Or directly from:
http://dev.scriptics.com/software/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.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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