QOTW: "I've been using Tcl/Tk since early on (92 or 93 from memory) but it wasn't until 2000 that I attended an annual conference. I should have gone much earlier." -- Steve Landers "The core is probably in better health now than it has been for ages." Donal K. Fellows "If I was the type of person to get nightmares at all easily, deployment of enterprise-class software would be the type of thing to cause serious insomnia-through-terror..." -- Donal K. Fellows TIP #107 "explains the genesis of the long delays often associated with [raise] and [lower] commands under Unix/X with some window managers, as well as describing the solution." http://groups.google.com/groups?th=e04f3e20190a0724 http://groups.google.com/groups?th=420ea734fd7f0a84 Various techniques for forming "a multi-command script via [list]" are explored in this thread. http://groups.google.com/groups?th=a8bd9a3ed9489604 Will Duquette releases SNIT ("Snit's Not Incr Tcl"), a "pure-Tcl object and megawidget framework." http://www.wjduquette.com/snit http://wiki.tcl.tk/3963 Harvey Davies releases version 3.0.4 of the nap, the n-dimensional array processor. "NAP is an array-processor like APL, J, MatLab & IDL. NAP operations process entire arrays, whereas the 'expr' command does only one element at a time." http://tcl-nap.sourceforge.net News about John Ousterhout's new company, "Electric Cloud". http://groups.google.com/groups?th=4f3ce3c55b24fa88 http://groups.google.com/groups?th=4c20f9c8be3a6951 The Wiki's abundant weekly riches make representative selection difficult. These pages most recently jumped out at Arjen Markus: This week there is music in the air and tones that were thought to be history: - Play piano at - Or if you are not musical, try to learn the venerable Morse alphabet presented in Tk-form at Drawing typically means: - Plotting data, which, as shows, can be done with lots of different packages - Something almost artistic, you could think of cellular automata, a famous example is Conway's "Life", and now a simple script, , is available to get you started - Anything that can be put on a whiteboard, as a demo shows that arose in the Tcl/Tk chatroom, . Drawing and graphs are not the same, as graphs frequently refer to data structures. Various approaches to handling such data structures are presented in . Just have a look! New and practical techniques are presented in the following pages: - Clean up when you are done with the application, AtExit handlers do the job, - Who says Tcl does not have "closures"? Look at a practical application, - If you need to develop an expert system, CLIPS is public domain tool, with a Tcl interface, just follow the path from - Printing (PostScript) under Windows, from within Tcl, is made simple, by the techniques described in - Wrapping your scripts into a Starpack, the latest method of distributing a Tcl application, is described in 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.purl.org/net/tcl-welcome 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://www.tcl-tk.net/resource/ The Xchange sponsor also keeps info to convince your boss Tcl is a good thing http://www.tcl-tk.net/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 Tools maintains a Cookbook of Tcl recipes http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Tcl 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 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://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/url.html --in principal. In spring 2001, though, http://www.ddj.com/topics/tclurl/ http://tcl.activestate.com:8004/tclurl/ are more consistently up-to-date. A fourth possibility is http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lang.tcl Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome. To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday, ask 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.
Tcl-URL! Weekly Tcl News and Links (September 3)
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