QOTW: "You want to allow '_' as the first character of a package name? That
seems overly permissive of uglyness." - DKF on tcl-core
"comm is so useful and robust that I normally advise folks around me to
think about using comm first for IPC, only falling back on manual socket
stuff for the really complicated stuff." - Adrian Ho
POTW: TileQt by George Petasis is a tile theme, which draws tile widgets
with the current (or any other) KDE widget style, thus making tile widgets
look native under the KDE desktop.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/c4244c52636e9316
http://www.ellogon.org/petasis/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=40
Barefooted Gnomes with similar gifts have not been seen yet.
Improvements for tk_get<some>File. Remember last directory ...
and the inherent problems of doing it right in a cross platform
way.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/7707a636aa543766
Calculating a timespan has low memory retention in c.l.t:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/614d67b64a6508ac
Carlos Crosetti documents ways packaging, especially with TclDevKit,
can improve Tcl development:
http://www.geocities.com/ccrosetti/tcldevkit/index.html
And to keep with the current focus on TileTk:
Handling treeview in Tile:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/870beec517a3e10b
The king's new clothes or which themes do you use:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/b134fb642e9aa677
Mats Bengtsson not only collects Carbon fragments into a new
SourceForge module, but he's organizing it so that other MacOS
enthusiasts can contribute.
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9800691&forum_id=3853
Font, colors on a background of what?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/cede39c95b799cea
The socket is dead, long live the socket. Or where persistence
goes or not. There is a group of problems users have that stem
from insufficient knowledge about processes, their lifetime
and environmental reach of same:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/348c49833285602c
TIPX: new, used and discarded Tips
TIP 261 by Martin Lemburg : Return Imported Commands from
[namespace import] is a new TIP which c.l.t. began to discuss:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/7bcecf6e19d6261b
Thanks to Arjen Markus for his so-accurate summary of Wiki activity:
It is that paradoxical time again: sun, bright blue skies and
a bit of snow, so typical for the end of the winter in the
part of the world that your humble chronicler calls his
home. But, with further ado: the summary!
Put it all to good use!
- Everyone should browse this French page once in a while,
with lots of screenshots of real-world applications of
Tcl ... <http://wfr.tcl.tk/598>
- And your chronicler is glad to read about the Air
Traffic Control application at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15535>
Test it while you can
- My, never doubt the power of regular expressions,
but perhaps your own ability to understand them?
Sifting through URIs ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15536>
- Unit testing in the way "junit" does it ...
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/5647>
- Perhaps you just want to browse around the
Windows Registry? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1516>
may help out if you are scared of "regedit"
Better be safe than sorry
- Sometimes things need to be done in the right
order - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15173> shows a
technique via file locks.
- Save the state of the program and come back
later? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15510> may help.
In a singleminded run-in against Tiles some splinters.
Applications using Tile: < http://wiki.tcl.tk/13636 >
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
comp.lang.tcl is a crucial resource for Tcl practitioners.
An interesting perspective on its traffic appears at
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/about
The Tcl Developer Site is Tcl's "home base".
http://www.tcl.tk
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
There's also a high-quality Wikibook on Tcl:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Tcl
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
deli.cio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference commentary.
It already aggregates quite a bit of Tcl intelligence.
http://del.icio.us/tag/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
"Yahoo! 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://www.ddj.com/topic/tcl/
An alternative 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
<[email protected]> 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.