Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Sep 5)
From: Uwe Klein
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 20:28:41 +0000
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl

QOTW: "I don't believe anything that I haven't measured myself." - Jesus
Rivas, world expert on *Eunectes murinus*, probably the world's largest snake
    http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/08/18/anaconda/index1.html

"I must admit that from what I've seen, it appears to be more stable than
JAVA." - Eric Rice and ...  "Thanks We do take a pretty stringent approach
to bugs here, and try to stamp them out with a mallet as soon as they show
their ugly faces :)." - ... and Jacob Levy from the past 


POTW:
    Tcl Plug-In for Eclipse by Greg Pierce
    Just wanted to post a new message that I created a Tcl Plug-in 
    for Eclipse using TclBlend from the tcljava SourceForge project. 
    They have not included my changes into TclBlend as of yet. 
    Therefore, you'll have to apply my patch:
	http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1499782&group_id=13005&atid=313005

    TileQt version 0.4 beta 1...
    A new version of TileQt has been released, version 0.4 beta 1.
    It can be found at:
	http://www.ellogon.org/petasis/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=40

    The most notable changes are the addition of support for the ttk::paned
    and ttk::sizegrip widgets, as well as initial support for Qt 4.x 
    (currently, all widgets except scrollbar, notebook and scale are supported). 
    Also, a small graphical configuration utility has been added
    (config-rpm.tcl) that can help configuring TileQt in rpm-based systems, 
    if both Qt 3.x & Qt 4.x (devel rpms) have been installed.
    Of course many bugs have been fixed.

ORBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl
    Twapi get primary domain controller
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/ef60501912984adf

    tcom: selecting instance to connect to...
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/5c274546a8d14623

    A good menu tutorial?
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/ba84103870bcad6b

    Creating nested safe interpreters and load Tk into it
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/e797c07f14eb833

    Embedding Tk in an MFC application
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/7adc95f6b0c5830d

    I need to create a line graphic on a headless box
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/9af9081592c778b

TIPX: new, used and discarded Tips
    nothing new here, walk on, but look left first:
    Donal K Fellows seems to make progress with TIP 257
	http://wiki.tcl.tk/14754

OOTW: Orphan of the week or questions nobody answered yet:
    TWAIN dll for Tcl/Tk
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/cb02d900d9e40055

URBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl this week TEN years ago:

    ISO WWW collaborative software written in Tcl
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/6d1a1519a976daf

    ISO package management question
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/c0035b46fbebf08d

    ARGH!
    Tcl or Java? Both !
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/324b3429dbb59e59

    Common LISP: The Next Generation
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java/browse_thread/thread/b4f47a4441cdbb21


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his report on the Wiki:
  A new season is nearing - wet and grey, depressing ...
  But the French Wiki holds a lot of goodies for the
  MacOSX programmers - so look at <http://wfr.tcl.tk/4>
  if you can read French!
  
  Bits and pieces 
  - KWWidgets is yet another GUI library, this one
    cooperates smoothly with Tcl/Tk and has interfaces
    to visualisation libraries - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/16657>
  
  - While human beings can easily determine a nice range
    for an axis in a plot, computers have to be carefully 
    instructed - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/16640> summarises
    a few approaches.
  
  - Uninvited guests on your computer ... some eavesdropping
    on TCP/IP that you want to detect or prevent? Here are
    two pages on that: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/12105> and
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/16639>
  
  Only human
  - What would the Tcl parser be mumbling, if it could 
    mumble? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1012> may provide insight
    in the interpretation of your Tcl code.
  
  - Biologists may be abhorred by the thought - trees
    that can learn - but hush, it is only a programming
    construct: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/16645>
  
  - No code, just a true story about a company
    - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/6126>
  
  
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/

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