Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 00:50:56 -0500 (CDT)
From: “Hall, Leam” LHall@rosenbluth.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
Subject: Dr. Dobb’s Tcl-URL! – weekly Tcl news and links (Jul
17)
Ever wanted to get an X program to come up in a Tk widget? Check
out tom’s demonstration at
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=646630901
Different countries use various characters like periods or
commas to make numbers more human readable, or to format them for
currency notation. Here’s how to convert a numeric string to human
readable format.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=646583654
AjubaSolutions moves forward in building a SourceForge (like?)
setup:
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=645990177
Brent Welch gives a programmer’s opinion about using a mutex
instead of double-checking pointers.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=645103060
For a look behind the design concept scene; Laurent Duperval
initiates a question about the C API and Tk widgets that covers a
lot of ground.
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=644445242
Laurent also reports on his detailed research into
internationalization of Tk dialogues
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=646875644
John Seal gives the recipe for double-clickable Tcl MacOS
applications
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=647142814
For the Newbies:
How to read a comma delimited file line by line, and assign the
fields to variables:
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=644589458
James Thorpe shows how to pop up a new top level window:
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=646255595
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/
Previous – (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! – messages are listed
here:
http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/url.html
or
http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=~g%20comp.lang.tcl%20Tcl-URL%21
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.