QOTW: "If each bit of code [package require]s all the packages that
provide any of the commands it uses, then users will get error messages
like 'can't find package foo' instead of cryptic things like reported in
this thread." - Don Porter on c.l.t.
"Personally, I am not aware of any other community site that presents
technical information in such an elegant and bloat-free way." - Razvan
Mihai, in regard to http://wiki.tcl.tk/
POTW: Tcl/Tk and the 8.4.13 Release from April 19, 2006: The Tcl Core Team
is pleased to announce the 8.4.13 releases of the Tcl dynamic language and
the Tk toolkit. This is the thirteenth patch release of Tcl/Tk 8.4.
ORBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl with announcements in abundance
spring has displaced a sleepy winter.
eTcl on SMT5600 Smartphone? Look Ma, no Hands...
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/696119d00748bf5
How do you convert a TCL list into a string that PHP can read?
An onion of a problem:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/dd844f2a60d7293a
A layer on test practices led eventually to this tutorial from
Bryan Oakley on tcltest:
http://www.tclscripting.com/articles/apr06/article1.html
Announce: tclgl2ps - hard copy o/p from Opengl
This package consists of Christophe Guezaine's gl2ps package wrapped
with SWIG to produce a loadable binary extension.
The purpose of this extension is to produce hard-copy output
(postscript, pdf , latex, svg) from opengl. The present extension is
intended to be used in conjunction with Paul Obermeier's tcl3d
(formerly tclogl).
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/61f0a5eb8fe3d0fd
tclgl2ps may be downloaded from
http://www.sfu.ca/~gay/tclgl2ps.zip.
The archive contains loadable binary extensions for Windows, 32-bit
Linux and 64-bit Linux. (Tested on XP/SP2 and SuSE 9.3).
ANNOUNCE: iaxclient 0.1
It is built upon the IAXClient which is an Open Source library to
implement the IAX protocol used by The Asterisk Software PBX.
IAX is a VoIP protocol for providing voice communication,
both p2p and to the public telephony system through an Asterisk
server. We have tested this on MacOSX, Linux and
Windows XP, both p2p and to the public tele network.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/d71388300e095a17
[Ann] DQkit 0.10
Dqkit is like tclkit on steroids. It includes tcl, tk, metakit, vfs,
zlib, tclx, itcl, itk, iwidgets, blt, tbcload, tclsqlite and openssl+tls,
according to fan Bob Techentin. It also includes threading. This will
probably be the final 8.4 based version.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/ee15cb9b94987ef
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dqsoftware/
ANNOUNCE: eTcl 1.0-rc0 released - v8.4.13 core and MacOSX universal binaries
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/355b6d0dd829ccf8
http://www.evolane.com/software/etcl/index.html
building BLT 2.4 for multi-threading on windows
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/92cba80beec19514
dont despair, help is just one click further:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/1970d634072ea4de
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/acee16ddb690e2d0
[Tk] How to bind . <Nomodifier-k> ?
theory and praxis, never the twain shall meet:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/b8345c075efcc06c
URBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl this week TEN years ago:
Floater is available!
Quote from the past(gregg):
wow, i'll bet that took some doing. 150+ lines of detailed
technical instructions without a clue as to what the package
is or does.
Is hindsight any better?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/92976a2f03fd304d/
COMMENTS REQUESTED: behavior of tk_dialog
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/3b0fefeccca360ff
Reminder: TclRobots Challenge #2
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.corewar/browse_thread/thread/16a00560103f9da3
looking for a Table Display widget
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/8b38bf2a63f244ec
Thanks to Arjen Markus for his review of Wiki updates:
With very old pages popping now and again, your Wiki chronicler
wonders whether there is a discernible evolution in the contents,
subjects and style of the pages that have appeared over the
years... But it is probably not worth anyone's while to find
out :).
Discussions
- Should we want Tcl to be immensely popular? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15785>
provides arguments against that thought ...
- Should we, perhaps, just have fun with our beloved language?
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/13723> takes another viewpoint.
- Should we include everybody's favourite code fragment in
our scripts and programs? Take your pick: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2213>
- Or, maybe, just show off with some fancy clothing and other
tangibles - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11192>
Examples
- Working with BWidget tree widgets _is_ fun, just look at this
French page: <http://wfr.tcl.tk/1099>
- If you want a resizeable canvas item, say a rectangle, stop and
look at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15777>
Calculators
- The recent discussions about the [expr] command may have triggered
them, but just look at the screenshot of this simulated HP calculator
- <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15312>
- And if you really prefer your computations in reversed Polish notation,
then I guess you will want to look at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15786>
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 (but
needs to validate many of the links).
http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.tcl/
Years ago, Cetus Links maintained a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html
"Yahoo! Groups" archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts--even
though clta itself is dormant.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/
Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are supposed to be
listed at *Dr. Dobbs*, but sysad at CMP has fallen behind. We're working
with them to restore the archive.
http://www.ddj.com/topic/tcl/
In the meantime, an alternative is
http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL&as_ugroup=comp.lang.tcl
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