QOTW: "Input handling under X11 is an unholy mess... too many independent
groups have devised too many different ways of solving the various problems,
and toolkits are expected to support all of the different solutions. It's
a barrel of worms." - Joe English
"I would strongly recommend SQLite3 to anyone working with TCL and databases.
It resolved weeks of frustration in a matter of a few hours." - Victor
POTW:
ANN: Wiklet Server by Keith Nash
A Wiklet is a Tclet whose source code and means of execution are
provided on a Wiki page.
To see Wiklets in action, visit http://www.kerlin.net/22
For a full explanation of Wiklets, see http://wiki.tcl.tk/16092
ANNOUNCE: Tcl Windows API extension V0.9
Version 0.9 of the Tcl Windows API extension has been
released. Project home page, including documentation,
examples and download links, is at:
http://twapi.sourceforge.net/
This is the final beta before the V1.0 release. Further work
for 1.0 will focus on completing the test suites and
adding more examples.
ANN: AOLserver 4.5.0 released!
On behalf of the AOLserver Team, I have the honor of announcing the
latest major release of AOLserver: 4.5.0.
AOLserver 4.5.0 is a major upgrade including several new Tcl commands,
C API's, and resource management improvements.
A summary of changes is provided at the end of this document.
WHAT IS AOLSERVER?
AOLserver is America Online's Open-Source web server. AOLserver is
the backbone of the largest and busiest production environments in
the world. AOLserver is a multithreaded, Tcl-enabled web server
used for large scale, dynamic web sites.
ANN: Cross-platform file browser, need input/code contributions
for Windows and X11
ANN: Tkhtml3 alpha 6
alpha release of Tkhtml3 is available. This one is "Alpha 6".
Tkhtml3 is a native Tk widget that renders HTML/CSS.
homepage:
http://tkhtml.tcl.tk/
This is still alpha software and there are still more than a few bugs.
But it's getting there. Tkhtml3 now does a pretty reasonable job of
rendering the "Acid 2" test (http://www.webstandards.org). See this
page for a summary of the state of the rendering engine:
help:
http://tkhtml.tcl.tk/support.html
ORBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl
Keyboard input & Tavultesoft Keyman (windows)...
WM_UNICHAR, WM_CHAR, there is a difference.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/52412efbe77589ab
Problem with Expect under Windows
Differences in behaviour under Windows and Dos actually:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/c0115408dbf20f6b
length of binary data
There are beans Beans BEANS and apples:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/b685ff11dc92ec54
Tk windows in different threads
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/b97f133245867607
Windows icons/registry & ico package
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/5909c203c008465d
New list commands ... What do you think ?
Well, some new list commands _and_ some insight into integrateability:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/de418610987ebae
Has any wizard taken a look at DBUS?
waiting at the busstop, thinking:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/514748881a6a2bff
rebuilding expect with different timer
i.e. how to make expect run in _simulated_ time:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/318f9eb4f640a49d
TIPX: new, used and discarded Tips
TIP 270 by Don Porter : Utility C Routines for String Formatting
is a new TIP
URBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl this week TEN years ago:
creating new FRANCOPHONE TCL newsgroups
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/d11dea96e0adfd46
Experience of Zimmer's Tcl course?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/27c05a95570976c2
2nd request Tk 3.x to Tk 4.x conversion script
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/73835d207eda98ef
ANNOUNCE graphviz_2_0a1 - Incremental Graph Layouts
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/7e2e8e206ada1ebe
Thanks to Arjen Markus for his review of Wiki updates:
The summer holidays have started, just one more summary
and your humble chronicler will join the crowd ...
At the lower end ...
- Fancy that, a complete operating system based on Tcl/Tk -
only a dream? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/16116>
- Take GIF images apart and put them together again -
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/16127> promises to make that
easy
- How to specify your graphics? Lots of options exist
and scalable vector graphics is but one (interesting)
option - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2893>
The middle ground
- How do you go about coding your Tk application?
Different possibilities and styles discussed on
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/11290>
- Colours - choose them right, well, this little tool
may help: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/16131>
And of course the high end
- Tile is being used in some impressive looking
applications - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13636>
- A new argument in marketing Tcl? Here is a
project management tool based -
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/13315>
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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