QOTW:
Cameron Laird wrote:
Octal delenda est!
Now that would look good on a bumper sticker... or as QOTW.
John Seal on c.l.t
"My spirit is: if a wheel is easier reinvented than reading its d
ocumentation, don't use that wheel." - Richard Suchenwirth
POTW:
ANNOUNCE: XOTcl 1.5.0 available
Dear Tcl Community. We are pleased to announce the
availability of XOTcl 1.5.0.
Major changes relative to 1.4.0 are:
* Improved Functionality:
+ The C-level implementation of XOTcl creates now the basic
classes ::xotcl::Object and ::xotcl::Class completely without
any methods.
+ Slots:
A slot is a meta-object that manages property-changes of
objects. A property is either an attribute or a role of an
relation.
+ Re-implementation of the method "parameter" based on slots.
+ Improved introspection though the procsearch method. This
+ Improved serializer
+ Improved forwarding commands
+ New snit-like utility functions:
+ added "subst" to the set of Tcl imported methods (like
* Improved code quality
General and more detailed information about XOTcl and its components
can be found at http://www.xotcl.org
The actual much longer announcement can be found at:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/e79ecb297b8f2a46
ANNOUNCE: Multi-column listbox package Tablelist 4.5
Tablelist is a library package for Tcl/Tk version 8.0 or higher,
written in pure Tcl/Tk code. It contains:
- the implementation of the "tablelist" mega-widget, including a
general utility module for mega-widgets;
- a demo script containing a useful procedure that displays the
configuration options of an arbitrary widget in a tablelist and
enables you to edit their values interactively;
- a second demo script, implementing a simple widget browser based on
a tablelist;
- a third demo script, showing several ways to improve the appearance
of a tablelist widget;
- four further demo scripts, illustrating the interactive cell
editing with the aid of various widgets from the Tk core and from
the packages tile, BWidget, Iwidgets, combobox (by Bryan Oakley),
and Mentry;
- one further demo script, with a tablelist widget containing
embedded windows;
- tile-based counterparts of the above-mentioned demo scripts;
- a tutorial in HTML format;
- reference pages in HTML format.
AANNOUNCE: Multi-entry widget package 3.0
Mentry is a library package for Tcl/Tk version 8.0 or higher, written
in pure Tcl/Tk code. It contains:
- the implementation of the multi-entry mega-widget "mentry",
including a general utility module for mega-widgets;
- procedures that facilitate the use of multi-entry widgets for
displaying and editing date and time in a great variety of formats,
real numbers in fixed-point format, as well as IP addresses;
- two richly commented demo scripts containing the typical steps
needed to create and handle a mentry widget for a particular
purpose;
- a demo script that shows how to use the date- and time-related
procedures;
- tile-based counterparts of the above-mentioned demo scripts;
- a tutorial in HTML format;
- reference pages in HTML format.
ORBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl
NexTk Design Questions
As a follow up to having published his testballoon:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/b8ce73872eb1510a
What decade is this?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/e28bb699c3c799ef
HTMLParse - Tutorials and Practical Examples
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/ba0b1697be3cc1b5
Tcl Developer's Conference Update
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/764e5a4ff0300f3b
TIPX: new, used and discarded Tips
TIP 268 by Jeff Hobbs : Enhance 'package' Version Handling
Vote: In progress
TIP 274 by Arjen Markus : Right-Associativity for the Exponentiation Operator
is a new TIP
OOTW: Orphan of the week or questions nobody answered yet:
Avalanche API
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/8287a42497038431
Commercial Tcl/Tk applications on Mac OS X
Kevin Walzer would like to collect information on this:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/77cc8b98bf202853
URBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl this week TEN years ago:
Port for Cray T3D
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/956dcfa3c4e6a8f1
(Late) BETA: tkgoodstuff 4.1
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl.announce/browse_thread/thread/4dca7399e91e292d
Announce: Tix is Free Again!
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/b430f7a1fff8fa46
Proposed improvement to package loading
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/a7133fe31224890b
ANNOUNCE: TkCon v0.60 - Enhanced Tk Console
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl.announce/browse_thread/thread/4698c150796f881f
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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