Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 06:51:27 -0600 (CST)
From: Jeffrey Hobbs jeffrey.hobbs@scriptics.com
With the onset of 8.3, people are starting to take note of some
of the positive new effects. Nijtmans answers one query as to why
perceptions of a faster canvas widget are likely reality.
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=565745356
Poindexter releases v1.2 of TclTicker, the stock ticket program,
after receiving lots of enthusiastic ideas.
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=565928002
http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/ftparchive/sorted/apps/tclticker/1.2/
Brian starts a long thread about the upcoming ::listx
command.
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=566233578
While Kupries makes a note of what’s there so far, with
available source code.
http://www.purl.org/NET/akupries/tcltk.html
http://www.purl.org/NET/akupries/listx-src.tar.gz
An interesting article on O’Reilly’s web site ponders whether
scripting languages can really call themselves VHLL (the author
forgot to mention Tcl – maybe that’s why the author concludes
scripting languages lack the V? :^)
http://www.oreilly.com/news/vhll_1299.html
Welch informs us of another Tcl/Tk track at the next O’Reilly
Open Source Convention, in July 2000. Gerald Lester will be heading
it up.
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=566204603
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=566208347
Hobbs notes plans for an upcoming standardized library to be
distributed along with (but not in) the core
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=567015633
Strosberg hits on why you don’t want to leave ‘puts’ calls in
your Tcl code
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=566402699
JCW notes that the popular Wiki, et al have moved
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=566961311
The ASED Tcl/Tk IDE reaches v0.9.3 after small bug fixes
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=567988957
http://home.t-online.de/home/andreas.sievers/asedhome.htm
And last, but not least, Fontaine releases v10.1 of moodss, the
Modular OO Dynamic SpreadSheet, which uses features of 8.3
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=568302793
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://www.scriptics.com/resource/
They also keep info to convince your boss Tcl is a good
thing
http://www.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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