Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 22:43:12 -0600 (CST)
From: “Jeffrey Hobbs” <<a
href=”mailto:jeffrey.hobbs@scriptics.com”>jeffrey.hobbs@scriptics.com>
Headlining it all, Tcl/Tk 8.2.2 was released, patch release that
has endured Pure’ification.
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=545040370
http://www.scriptics.com/products/tcltk/8.2.html
And of course Nijtmans follows with his Dash patch (note new
home page for Jan) which enhances Tk, primarily the canvas
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=545342788
http://purl.oclc.org/net/nijtmans/dash.html
Paul Duffin ponders for us the issues for deleting an active
eval, as well as introducing a proposal for improved Async
handlers
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=538816106
TclBlend and Jacl, blurring the lines and tying Tcl to Java,
have reached 1.2.5
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=543997203
http://www.scriptics.com/products/java/
trfcrypt 2.0 is ready, an add-on for Trf (the transforms
extension) that provides crypt-algorithms
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=
http://www.oche.de/%7Eakupries/soft/trfcrypt/
Chris Nelson announces his new book, “The Tcl/Tk Programmer’s
Reference”, described as “man pages on steroids”, with some
favorable reviews.
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/viewthread.xp?AN=543167088
Ishido, a game rewritten in Tcl/Tk was announced
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=543984207
Moodss, a modular OO spreadsheet for Unix with some sysadmin
utilities, reaches 9.3
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=545308052
A frameset extension was announced – it manipulates data
structures called ‘frames’ (Minsky).
http://home.att.net/~cafugate/
Tcl + Java = A match made for scripting
http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-1999/swol-11-jacl.html
Mk4Tcl 1.2, an embedded database, is released
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=544775242
http://www.equi4.com/metakit/tcl.html
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/
Tcl/Tk Consortium can search comp.lang.tcl and
c.l.t.announce
http://www.tclconsortium.org/resources/
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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