QOTW: "I didn't need to know that its a bad idea or why its a bad idea.
I just needed to known why Tcl didn't do what I expected." - ulis
"Many Tclers post answers in comp.lang.tcl for the benefit of not just
the original poster, but all who may read the archives - but *you* didn't
need to know that." - neuronstorm in answer to ulis on c.l.t.
"The Tcl-core developers did a lot of hard work, to get a sane semantic
for exec even to windows." - Andreas Leitgeb
POTW: ANN: Tkhtml alpha 4 available.
"Tkhtml" is a Tcl/Tk widget that displays HTML. Tkhtml is implemented in C.
It is a true widget, not a metawidget implemented using the Text or Canvas
widgets of the Tcl/Tk core. The changes for version 3 and in particular all
of the work on style sheets, has been done by Dan Kennedy. Dan has been able
to work full-time on the project for several months thanks to the financial
support of Eolas Technologies, Inc..
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/5996340e17369c66
homepage:
http://tkhtml.tcl.tk/index.html
eTcl 1.0-rc3 released
Eric Hassold announces the third release candidate for eTcl 1.0
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/74a7173e53b86c30
ANNOUNCE: Tile Widget Set, version 0.7.6
Tile 0.7.6 corresponds roughly to the CVS snapshot labelled '0.7.5'
which was included in the recently-released ActiveTcl 8.4.13.
+ ttk::entry widgets now support an 'identify' method,
to support entry-based megawidgets.
+ ttk::notebook widgets have an 'insert' method, which allows
new panes to be added at any position (not just the end).
+ The ttk::notebook 'select' method with no arguments now
returns the currently-selected tab.
+ ttk::treeview 'identify' method interface has been revised
to be easier to use.
+ ttk::treeview 'bbox' method added.
+ ttk::notebook and ttk::labelframe widgets have more flexible
layout policies; better support for pixmap themes.
+ Keyboard navigation for ttk::notebooks now works when there
are multiple notebooks in a single toplevel, including
nested notebooks.
+ [style lookup] command added, for querying theme option values.
+ Several bugs have been fixed; see ChangeLog for details.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/d4b637442ba396ce
homepage:
http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile
prebuild packages:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11464
AND Documentation:
http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/doc/
[Ann] DQkit 8.5a4-build2 and 8.4.13-build1
There is only one change as compared to 8.5a4-build1 and 0.10 - both
sqlite and sqlite3 can be used at the same time.
This release has TclX back, newest version from CVS.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/f4d05667ae38b929
download:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dqsoftware/
ORBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl
TkDND 2.0--how to adjust makefile for alternate platform?
Little hints on TEA grow into big help through the author
adding TEA 3.5 support to DkDND
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/4fccb25e542883ad
download of updated TkDND:
http://www.ellogon.org/petasis/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=31&Itemid=37
docs:
http://www.ellogon.org/petasis/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=52&Itemid=37
set/get/compare a number by binary bit
Tcl and the joys of using a list for everything ( and i still would use
bitbanging ints for this )
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/c5fa0e01
Delivering a presentation justifying use of TCL/Tk
Examples and ideas for a presentation, existing documentation that can be used
and what type of audience will you be talking to:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/7eb0c58eabc36604
page syntax for +script
starting with a question on +{scripts} in bind and comm this discussion
slewes over to a disemination on semantics
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/9e11ce7e487cbb0d
URBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl this week TEN years ago:
FVWM and Tcl/TK, How do I assign desktops?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/f4f735e3d0fb7700
Announcing: Ada 95 binding to Tcl/Tk
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/c5bef61c3b915b31
Performance problems with TCL 7.5/Tk 4.1/Tix 4.0.4
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/ae3acf1a53653377
JOB : someone to port tcl-unix app to NT
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/f11dfa263cea8f54
Thanks to Arjen Markus for his review of Wiki updates:
A most exemplary week on the Wiki - judging from the
emphasis on examples ...
Gems
- Everyone has their own examples of beautiful Tcl/Tk
code - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/918> is a small collection
of them.
- You might say, Tk by itself is all you need for
displaying tables ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15683>
- ... but sometimes you might want to integrate
a "foreign" widget into Tk (or vice versa) ...
let <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15857> guide you.
- Now, why didn't anyone think of this before:
a small device to enlarge the font in a text widget
- especially useful if you have trouble reading
small-font Chinese characters: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15868>
Nuggets
- Contribute your favourite empirical formula, be it
physical or chemical: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15855>
- Though the names be strange to an English ear,
these two packages may help with certain programming
tasks - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9064> and
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/10556>
Workers
- Don't forget the next Tcl event on the calendar:
A European gathering near Cologne -
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/13567>
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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