Tcl-URL! for July 17, 2000
Jul 17, 2000, 08 :49 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (1117 reads)

From: "Hall, Leam" LHall@rosenbluth.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Jul 17)

 Ever wanted to get an X program to come up in a Tk widget? Check out tom's demonstration at

http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=646630901

 Different countries use various characters like periods or commas to make numbers more human readable, or to format them for currency notation. Here's how to convert a numeric string to human readable format.

http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=646583654

 AjubaSolutions moves forward in building a SourceForge (like?) setup:

http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=645990177

 Brent Welch gives a programmer's opinion about using a mutex instead of double-checking pointers.

http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=645103060

 For a look behind the design concept scene; Laurent Duperval initiates a question about the C API and Tk widgets that covers a lot of ground.

http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=644445242

 Laurent also reports on his detailed research into internationalization of Tk dialogues

http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=646875644

 John Seal gives the recipe for double-clickable Tcl MacOS applications

http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=647142814

 For the Newbies:

 How to read a comma delimited file line by line, and assign the fields to variables:

http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=644589458

 James Thorpe shows how to pop up a new top level window:

http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=646255595

 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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