Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:46:54 +0000

QOTW: "Did I just read that Tcl IS NOT a scripting language?"
     -- GlennH

"This time I'd like just to say thank you.  I've worked on a couple of TCL
projects lately for customers that went well, and couldn't have been done
without the contributions that everyone here makes, both in software and in
advice."
     -- Alan Folsom


POTW: textprops-1.0 by Victor Wagner.
"Package textprops adds default right-click menus for entry and text widgets.
This version also provides function to add standard edit commands to
application main menu. Automatic control of menu entries state (on
-postcommand) is included."
     http://www.45.free.net/~vitus/ice/works/tcl.html#textprops


     Generating RSS in Tcl, from a list of URLs:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=ddf4691aa0f2ec54

     Is Tcl a scripting language or a "dynamic language"?  (Not that it
     matters, unless you're trying to win an iPod from SourceForge.)
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=d65349b46355b3fa

     How can you validate a Tcl script?  Suggestions include Nagelfar,
     Frink, and sgxTVC.  No one has yet mentioned [info complete].
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=d8ba5a4a183b8770

     Batched multiple sequential invocations of tclsh eventually hangs;
     suspicion falls on failure to [close] channels properly:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=ab916c02806eda00

     A fundamental newbie misconception about the "args" argument:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=7f788f2e19baa60c

     Casual users of [wm] and [winfo] have probably wondered
     exactly what an "atom" is, with respect to a window:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=44fadf343384fbf4


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his report from the Wiki:
  Dear me, all this talk about defending the Wiki against URL spammers ...
  it makes me a trifle nervous: some pages just lead to wonderful other 
  sources of information or software. Let us hope for the best. Anyway
  here is the summary
  
  Bug hunting
  - Want to learn more about debugging?  may provide
    a good starting point.
  
  - Perhaps you should start with the source and have a thorough look before
    running the program.  gives pointers for such 
    static analysis.
  
  - Validation of XML files may be considered another form of bug hunting.
    Try:  if your bugs tend to have tags ...
  
  File hunting
  - Just three letters, the title of this page, but do not be fooled:  
    it leads you to a simple file manager - 
  
  - Files often have magic numbers to determine their species. Here is
    a hack of a script in Tcl to do what the UNIX file command does too
  
  The hunt for nice graphics
  - Just add a splash screen to your next starpack - it looks ever so nice:
    
  
  - Print that picture: a golden oldy returns to shed its wisdom about this
    ever common problem: 
  
  - Picture yourself a mannekin on a bicycle, make it become alife magically ... 
    
  
  Hunting whatever
  - Translate an IP address to a name on the map - 
  
  - Seek to understand what mathematicians think about real numbers on a 
    computer -  leads the way
  
  - Ultimately, you will want to show helpful explanations to whatever 
    computer program you are creating. Does  give
    you what you are looking for?
  
  
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

    The Eleventh Mostly-Annual Tcl Conference will be this October.
	http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2004/

    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/

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