Tcl-URL! for September 11, 2000
Sep 11, 2000

 George A. Howlett (BLT author) discusses some of the design theory in BLT. 
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=667443614 

 Dealing with legacy apps? Kevin Kenny show how to shift output from a FORTRAN program into a Tk widget. 
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=666897219 

 Often, leading "zero" characters can cause issues in scripts. But if we need to keep them as is, Gerhard Hintermayer shows how. 
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=667364361 

 "eval" works with 32 bit numbers. Miguel Sofer discusses getting a modulus from 64 bit integers. 
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=667346687 

 For the Newbies: Harald Oehlmann shows how to change font size. 
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=667196742 

 Andreas Leitgeb and Cameron Laird give a couple ways to include an updating loop in a Tk widget. 
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=667232188 
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=667214694 

 Kevin Kenny, though, instructively models an [update]-free event- based countdown. This is more truly The Tcl Way: more reentrant and scalable. 
http://deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=667772932 

 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 
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