2004-10-11 
QOTW:  "Either you fight against the differences or you embrace them."
                                Bryan Oakley, on Tcl's character

"Don't guess, measure."
                                Donal K. Fellows


POTW:  "Kiwi is a graphic application which displays ... trace logs."
Keywords:  real-time, portable, pure-Tk, ...
    http://rtportal.upv.es/apps/kiwi/


    If you want an HTTP client connection with keep-alive, you need
    http version 1.1. The core http package doesn't support this, but
    tclsoap does.
        http://groups.google.nl/groups?th=2cb811b38af89ede

    If you want to compile a Tcl application, that is turning
    readable Tcl code into bytecodes, your best bet is Tcl Dev
    Kit. If you don't mind using Tcl 8.3 the older TclPro may still
    be servicable for you.
        http://groups.google.nl/groups?th=ba3356f7b80ecadd

    Although Tcl is thread-safe, using it always seems to reveal the
    subtle ways threading can go wrong.     
        http://groups.google.nl/groups?th=48e036477d4784ba

    Who said comp.lang.tcl is restricted to Tcl? It is also a fine
    place to learn a bit about C and why Tcl is more convenient than
    C.
        http://groups.google.nl/groups?th=da1397e0f5d3c5a0

    Discovering the location of 'My Documents' is not very hard. It
    is important to get it right however, as it may not even be called 'My
    Documents' but something like 'Mijn Documenten' or 'Mes Documents'.
        http://groups.google.nl/groups?th=12241daf19129128

    A lot of commands have interesting, but mostly harmless
    peculiarities. [array] is one of them.
        http://groups.google.nl/groups?th=a40f9c1ea229af41

    Want to save to save the contents of a [canvas] in an image file?
        http://groups.google.nl/groups?th=7e264aee307da289

    Run a python script from Tcl? It is probably simpler than you thought.
        http://groups.google.nl/groups?th=e86c366ee0c11b53

    How do you convert a user entered string into a correct call to [exec]?
        http://groups.google.nl/groups?th=75c33835aac525aa

    And finaly, using [tk_messageBox] right before an [entry] widget
    has a subtle buglet, with a simple work around.
        http://groups.google.nl/groups?hl=nl&lr=&th=8e569a5e06506314

Thanks to Arjen Markus for his report from the Wiki:
  Awesome, the variety in subjects of the pages that are created, updated and
  corrected each week! You Wiki chronicler tries, as always, to do his best 
  to sieve out a handful of them on the basis of a completely arbitrary 
  decision process ...
  
  Record whatever you can
  - No time to listen to the radio? Just record the programme with Snack:
    
  
  - Ever wonder what you are doing all the time behind your keyboard, just
    wasting that time? Find out by taking snapshots: 
  
  - So your log files grow endlessly? No problem - just rotate them!
     shows how
  
  People pages
  - The French Wiki has an interesting discussion going on - 
    : how to teach children how to program and what
    programming environment would be appropriate. It is akin to the
    English page 
  
  - Here is a little memory game with the amuzing feature that you play
    with the photos of some well-known Tclers: 
  
  Faits divers
  - This interesting idea deserves more attention: 
    discusses an alternative way to distribute Tcl-only extensions. If only
    there was a reasonable solution for the docs ....
  
  - What a nice idea, building your own wee little window manager ...
    
  
  - In the summary of a week that saw so many mathematically-oriented pages 
    added, at least one should be mentioned: 
    Quaternions are the four-dimensional cousins to complex numbers. It is
    up to you to see if they are really useful, but there are some surprising
    areas ...
  
  
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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