QOTW: "That's part of 'marketing'. Tcl for one reason or the other, seems
to have done a really good job of getting into companies, but it seems to be
a 'black hole' in that nothing gets out again." - David Welton
"Also it is self-reinforcing: When there is no 'buzz' surrounding a
language, companies don't flaunt it as a 'buzz-word'." - Donald Arsenau,
also on c.l.t
POTW:
ANN: TkHelpBrowser 1.2
TkHelpBrowser is a simple but complete system for displaying user
documentation in an application. In addition to providing display of the
HTML pages, it provides navigation of the documents via a treeview, and
also provides basic search capabilities
homepage: http://tk-components.sourceforge.net/helpbrowser/index.html
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/8a1d18bf338e9669
ORBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl
Starpack/XOTcl/Thread exit behavior
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/cccc85398af8c949
TclSOAP and SOAP headers
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/400ffc3ef939ab8e
Tile question
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/ea22a09ae55e826a
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.home.repair/browse_thread/thread/d724060a00573cab
NewsForge Ariticle
Interesting how words like buzz, marketing, etc... and then something positive.
url: http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/07/28/219235&from=rss
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/d4eda504e4df13b8
navigation, zooming in/out, how to solve it?
Questions on (new/other) UI concepts:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/3062174ac62715bd
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.perl.tk/browse_thread/thread/5bce1eb12264611f
Tcl's Future was: Re: Apache 2.0 TCL solution
an ongoing discussion:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/aad3963513aafd64
Tk within a foreing MDI host ( tcl-core )
How to get Tk Windows managed under the "Viewport" Window of an MDI App:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=29424300&forum_id=3854
TIPX: new, used and discarded Tips
TIP 268 by Jeff Hobbs : Enhance 'package' Version Handling
some discussion on implementation in tcl-core
http://sourceforge.net/search/index.php?group_id=10894&form_submit=Search&search_subject=1&type_of_search=mlists&all_words=&exact_phrase=tip+268&
( i can't rid myself of the impression that threading and the
searchform on sourceforge maillists are somehow broken )
OOTW: Orphan of the week or questions nobody answered yet:
SDIO interface
are there any way to use Tcl sending commands or data via SDIO
interface just like the way it communicates with COM port?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/519f7a8293bf80f5
URBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl this week TEN years ago:
(naive?) question
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/e374cb3583be2c38/
BUG?: Multi-interpreter grab problems
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/7ec9b9c80aa7e93f
ANNOUNCE: EC - embedded C in Tcl ( ProtoCritcl ? )
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl.announce/browse_thread/thread/2bdb66a334eb1709
Algorithm for Canvas
splitting canvas postscript output into multiple pages:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/98ac0c16498c89a5
Thanks to Arjen Markus for his report:
It is the holiday season in the northern hemisphere and
that may or may not influence Wiki activity - oh, just
see for yourself.
Discussions
- The fabled "Tcl 9" may or may not be different when
it comes to interactive features - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/16214>
- Need to build a help system? There are plenty of options
as witnessed by <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3196>
- Implementing the famous map function, that showpiece of
functional programming, is dead-easy with Tcl 8.5's apply
command - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/12848>
Demonstrations
- All you need is Tcl/Tk if you want to do some logic programming:
See <http://wiki.tcl.tk/16234> for editing logical notations
and <http://wiki.tcl.tk/16238. if you are more concerned with
databases and unification.
- You may not release it, but it is very easy with Tcl to
update a _running_ program. <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1027>
- Now that these little hand-held computers are so ubiquitous,
you could just wait for this kind of application to appear:
always have a map of your whereabouts on the screen
- <http://wiki.tcl.tk/16207>
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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