QOTW: “Tcl is just chock full of nice stuff.” — Donal K.
Fellows
“this is the first language that I really want to learn.”
— [email protected]
POTW: moodss-17.10 and moomps-2.12 by Jean-Luc Fontaine. “Moodss
is a modular monitoring application, which […] allows the
construction of dashboards with graphs, pie charts, etc.”
http://jfontain.free.fr/moodss/
How do we use Tcl? Let us count the ways:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=b8e20ee7cdde7af0
[wm transient] is really just a suggestion, not an ironclad
law:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=fce595e2ee888676There are easier ways to manage listbox contents than with
insert and delete; for example, with -listvariable and [lset]:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=bc5be7e97b63cc6Computing offset from UTC is easier with [clock format
-gmt]:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=15589f9a24500547What’s in a name? Unexpected errors, that’s what! Weirdness
ensues when your app has the same name as a widget class:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=20dec741e5186ef2Monitoring a logfile that may be rolled (renamed and replaced
with a new, empty logfile). This looks like one of the few times
when you have to use polling rather than fileevents:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=3111f865b05ab914Lisp packs awesome power into the tiny backtick; TIP #157
proposes to pack similar power into a much bigger {expand}:
http://groups.google.com/groups?th=e6eb367ce3a867ff
Thanks to Arjen Markus for his summary of recent Wiki activity:
Congratulations to all Wiki contributors and supporters: we have
reached the incredible number of page 10000 last week! And judging
from the highest page numbers right now, page 11000 should be there
before the end of next week 🙂
More seriously: yes, we have 10000 pages (not all filled, but
still), add your cheers to <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10000>
Further news:
Anyone who has not been plagued by the deluge of emails with
viruses or with warning about viruses? Lucky you! In any, these
pages try to do something about it:
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/9998> describes
useful scripts to use with the Sophos antivirus software and
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/10003> relies
on POP3 to kill spam.
Here are some pages about graphics and GUIs:
- Enlarge a text widget – <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10031>
- Use your imagination and make a new cursor – <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8674>
- Transparant pictures – you can so many things with that, for
example: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10038>
Here are some technical pages:
- Remote input and output is possible with Expect despite the
remote system’s lack of cooperation, look at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3178> for
details - If you do not have Expect, here is a little script that gets
you on the way with telnet: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9995> - Temporary files cause race conditions and security issues. Did
you know that? Some attempts to make them work properly:
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/772>
And finally, that rotund number that we all love: pi is the
subject of <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8401>
Everything Tcl-related you want is probably one or two clicks
away in these pages:
The “Welcome to comp.lang.tcl”
message by Andreas Kupries
http://www.purl.org/net/tcl-welcome
The Tcl Developer Site is Tcl’s “home base”.
http://www.tcl.tk
Larry Virden maintains a comp.lang.tcl FAQ launcher
http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-FAQ/
The Tcl Developer Xchange is a highly organized resource center
of documents and software with provisions for individuals to
maintain references to their own software:
http://www.tcl.tk/resource/
The TDX sponsor, ActiveState, also keeps info to convince your
boss Tcl is a good thing
http://www.tcl.tk/scripting/
The Tcl’ers Wiki is a huge, dynamic, collaboratively edited
repository of documentation, examples, tutorials and pontifications
on all things Tcl.
http://wiki.tcl.tk/0
For the ideal overview of the topics about Tcl most likely to
interest a newcomer, see “Arts and Crafts …”
http://wiki.tcl.tk/969
ActiveState maintains binaries distribution and development
tools
http://www.activestate.com/Tcl
along with a Cookbook of Tcl recipes
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Tcl
Cameron Laird tracks several Tcl/Tk references of interest
http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.tcl/
Cetus Links maintains a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html
Google Groups archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/
Previous – (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! – messages are listed
here:
http://www.ddj.com/topics/tclurl/
An alternative is
http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=3Ddjq&as_q=3D+Tcl-URL!&as_ugroup=3Dcom=p.lang.tcl
Suggestions/corrections for next week’s posting are always
welcome.
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