QOTW: "I don't recall who said it, but I must agree with the precept:
'Multiple inheritance is the "goto" of object-oriented programming.' I
have yet to see a project use it and be glad of it the following year." - Larry
Smith on c.l.t regarding multiple inheritance
"[A]t some level of internals usage, an extension just has to give up on the
stubs promise." - D. G. Porter
POTW:
Announce: Tclrapi 0.1
This is an announcement of the Tcl interface to Microsoft RAPI.
This is an interface to interact to PocketPC directly from PC, using ActiveSync.
Currently the extension allows reading/writing files on PocketPC.
I hope to add registry and CeCreateProcess functionality in the future.
homepage: notyet
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/98227560c2bf298d
ANNOUNCE: cscrollbar and TFP Shell
cscrollbar is a scrollbar widget in pure Tcl/Tk. Its appearance is
customizable via images.
wiki: http://wiki.tcl.tk/tcl/cscrollbar
TFP Shell is an interactive shell for Unix-like systems based on my new
box programming system.
wiki: http://wiki.tcl.tk/16204
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/167032b5bac3b427
ANNOUNCE: Whim WM 433 Starkit
It's a high quality window manager, that is used constantly by its
developers.
It has support for most ICCCM hints.
It has support for the important MWM hints.
It has shaped window support.
Each virtual desktop is a canvas, so you can explore new and interesting
interface ideas.
Each window container is a frame that can have other widgets embedded.
It's easily customizable via Tcl and the Behavior menu.
It's BSD licensed.
It doesn't require patches to Tcl/Tk.
The Starkit includes binaries for:
x86 Linux (built in Slackware by Steve Redler IV);
ARM Linux (built by Steve Redler IV) compatible with the Nokia 770;
x86 NetBSD 3.0 (built by George Peter Staplin).
download: http://whim.linuxsys.net/files/Whim433.kit
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/7d0c9414e519fbcd
ORBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl
newly formed open source project looking for Tcl/Tk developers
From the message: I'm the facilitator of the SIMPL open source project which
states its aim is to bring Send/Receive/Reply messaging (QNX style) to the Linux world:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/a361cbdba1769f4a
Help on tclMagick on FreeBSD 6.1 ... any joy?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc/browse_thread/thread/9f4980545fd04bf7
tcldom and tclsoap looking for new Debian maintainer
Dave Welton does not have the time anymore
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/d73fab881c612c1e
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.devel/browse_thread/thread/68199efba9738401
A better picklist implementation
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/da6a81710b97d12c
TIPX: new, used and discarded Tips
nothing new here, walk on.
OOTW: Orphan of the week or questions nobody answered yet:
Guidelines to port tcl on vxworks (wind kernel)
This got some replies but maybe one or the other nonregular of c.l.t
has some more information.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/1713b381052a0c65/
Can tile be used to create a "special" type of button?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/7171bdd678b08057
URBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl this week TEN years ago:
Command Pipelines in MacOS
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac.programmer.help/browse_thread/thread/79309f641b191b70
ANNOUNCE: scwoop-1.1
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/6440afaabbce4f0
is "ls" a cross-platform Tcl command?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/e3430383dd5a664b
Multi-threaded TCL - MTTcl
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/46c4817e6c7d3c11
Doing two things at once in TK
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/2ec857734d16f76e
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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