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Tcl-URL! – weekly Tcl news and links (Mar 12)

Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 17:48:23 -0600 (CST)
From: Bill Schongar bschonga@cisco.com
To: Dr.Dobb’s.Tcl-URL.distribution@starbase.neosoft.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
Subject: Dr. Dobb’s Tcl-URL! – weekly Tcl news and links (Mar
12)

Wondering how to get a Tcl script to run from within a Java
program, or something along those lines? Maybe you want the tcljava
project at SourceForge, maybe you want the Runtime exec method
within Java… for all sorts of answers, look through this
thread:
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=40ac49f6c28ce966

A quick reminder – if you have access to a mac and compiler, and
would like to help out, TIP #11 is in need of someone to try out
Todd Helfter’s Tk patch. Any volunteers?

What to do if you want the equivalent of “wm state . zoomed”,
but you’re
not running on Windows? Turn to the Wiki algorithms, of course –
how to
maximize your windows:
http://mini.net/cgi-bin/wikit/534.html

If it’s not all Greek to you, it may be Chinese. Richard
provides useful Wiki links for folks dealing with Chinese
characters and encodings which may be a little non-standard:
http://mini.net/cgi-bin/wikit/737.html

http://mini.net/cgi-bin/wikit/1233.html

Feeling the bite of a bytecode bug? If you’re not sure what’s
happening to give you TclExecuteByteCode execution errors on
Windows, you may want to look at the bug Neil’s talking about:
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=b4303ca8aacb40ef

Trying to drag a window around while it has overrideredirect set
to 1? Well then this is the information you’re looking for to solve
your problem:
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=612b89e0873ffd65

Daniel Steffen announces an updated version of Jim Ingham’s
Macintosh sampleextension-0.2 to link against the stub libraries
and produce a single binary for both PPC and CFM68k processors. Get
the binhex’d package from:

http://www.maths.mq.edu.au/~steffen/tcltk/Mac_sampleextension-0.2.1.bin

Frederic Bonnet announces major changes to the TkGS font
project, all available on SourceForge at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tkgs

Looking for a programming challenge? How about a Tcl version of
the DECSS Perl code posted recently? Of course, you’ll need to know
a little about the algorithm, but hey, that’s what makes it a
challenge!
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=30572d2d82fb16fd

Do you need TclLib to be compatible with older versions of Tcl?
Some of the procedures require “[string …]” and format functions
available only in 8.2 and later. Make your voice heard if you have
a desperate need…
http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&th=5950c4c2b772e2d8

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/

Brent Welch maintains “The Tcl Developer Xchange”, a highly
organized resource center of documents and software with provisions
for individuals to “set up a link to your software and update …
as you release new versions.”
http://dev.scriptics.com/resource/

They also keep info to convince your boss Tcl is a good
thing
http://dev.scriptics.com/scripting/

Mark Harrison publishes summaries of Tcl Core Team (TCT)
activity
http://tcltk.com/docs/tct/

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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