Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 19:16:54 -0500 (CDT)
From: Bill Schongar [email protected]
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
Subject: Dr. Dobb’s Tcl-URL! – weekly Tcl news and links (May
23)
Memorial day is coming up in the states.. the day that hot dog
and hamburger vendors came more often, as well as outdoor grill
salesmen…
The nesting instinct kicking in? Well, then here’s a trick for
convincing your namespaces to nest as well:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=625872966
If you have any groupware calandering code you’d like to share,
or projects you’d like to talk about, Larry would sure like to
know:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=623207538
Andreas shares a quick trick for situations where you may want
to return an array, or at least close to it:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=623434566
Whose job is it to take out the garbage? Or do you just pass it
around, like references? Well, conservative garbage collectors,
this thread is for you:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=623486622
Jean-Luc brings us up to date with 8.3.1 rpms, including the
Plus Patch:
http://jfontain.free.fr/tcl+-8.3.1-1.i386.rpm
http://jfontain.free.fr/tcl+-8.3.1-1.spec
Don’s quick trick for checking if a namespace exists, since
‘namespace exists’ will only arrive in 8.4:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=623813994
Hordes of lego creations, moving about under their own power…
all made possible through a GUI to control pbFORTH on the lego RCX
boxes! The future is closer than you think:
http://www.hempeldesigngroup.com/lego/pbFORTH/pbForthGUI.html
WinTclSend users can now give the same tasks a try on Windows,
making use of the ‘Wind’ clone of WinTclSend:
http://www.interq.or.jp/japan/s-imai/tcltk/wind.html
Editors, interpreters, extensions, oh my! People contribute
their preferences on working environments:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=624181155
PRS announces new open source widgets and a printer extension
for Windows:
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=624427086
The AlphaTk text editor has been updated with some new fun
features:
ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/pub/alpha/tcl/alphatk/
Want stubs on your BLT? Wait no longer… rpms and patches are
available:
http://jfontain.free.fr/blt-2.4q-6.i386.rpm
http://jfontain.free.fr/blt-2.4q-6.i386.spec
http://jfontain.free.fr/BLT2.4q.patch.gz
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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