Subject: Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Jul 25)
From: Uwe Klein
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:39:07 +0000
To: "Tcl-URL distribution" :;
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl

QOTW:
    Outside of a proc, you could do more, but all good code is in procs :)
	Richard Suchenwirth

    PS: A real great community the c.l.t - THX  Gerhard Reithofer on c.l.t
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/d40973517a02ca7d


POTW:
     ActiveState releases Tcl Dev Kit 4.0.1
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/f976d2ddf9e2b28f
    ActiveState is pleased to announce the release of Tcl Dev Kit 4.0.1,
    the professional toolkit for creating, building and deploying Tcl/Tk
    applications.
    Tcl Dev Kit 4.0.1 is a free maintenance update for registered users
    of Tcl Dev Kit and ActiveTcl Pro Studio.
    For detailed information, see:
	http://www.activestate.com/products/tcl_dev_kit/

    ActiveState releases ActiveTcl 8.4.15 and ActiveTcl 8.4.15 beta
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/97077d88efe6b1e3
    ActiveState is pleased to announce ActiveTcl 8.4.15, a core
    patchlevel release of the complete, ready-to-install Tcl
    distribution for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, AIX and
    HP-UX; and ActiveTcl 8.5.0 Beta 8, based on the upcoming
    Tcl/Tk 8.5 release.

    For detailed information or to download these releases, see:
	http://www.activestate.com/products/activetcl/

    Ann TclCurl 7.16.4 by Andres Garcia
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/7d6892400dd0e097
    I have just released a new version of TclCurl updated for
    libcurl 7.16.2, with TclCurl you can download and upload
    files using protocols like ftp, ftps, tftp, http, https,
    scp, sftp, tftp, ldap, telnet, dict and file.
    The main changes since the last version are:
	* New configure options:
	    * newfileperms: Used to set the permissions, defalt 0664,
	      that will be assigned to newly created files on the
	      remote server.
	    * newdirectoryperms: Used to set the permissions, default
	      0755, that will be assigned to newly created directories
	      on the remote server.
	      They can both be used for SFTP, SCP and FILE transfers.
	* Changed option: The option to set the Kerberos security
	  level for FTP is now called 'krblevel', the old name
	  'krb4level' will be kept for time for compatibility.
	* New option for multi handles:
	    * maxconnects: Sets the maximum amount of simultaneously
	      open connections that TclCurl may cache. Default is 10.
	* Bug fix: Sven Hoexter fixed a couple of errors in the man pages.
    Since the last TclCurl, there has been many changes in libcurl which
    you can check at:
	http://curl.haxx.se/changes.html
    For more information, please visit:
    http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/index.html

    ANNOUNCE: Multi-column listbox package Tablelist 4.8 by Csaba Nemethi
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/bb8648f8f49cc90b
    I am pleased to announce Version 4.8 of the multi-column listbox package
    Tablelist.  This release is identical to the one included in ActiveTcl 8.4.15.
    What is new in Tablelist 4.8?
    -----------------------------
    This release fixes a few nasty bugs related to the optimized item
    insertion, introduced in the previous Tablelist version (thanks to
    Harold Campbell, Roger Niva, and Joerg Klingseisen for their bug
    reports).
    *I thoroughly recommend to all Tablelist 4.7 users to upgrade to
    Version 4.8.*
    Homepage:
	 http://www.nemethi.de
    Download,Sources:
	http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcllib 


MEET:

POLL:

ORBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl
    JACL HOWTO - loading tcl procedures dynamically from jar files under java.
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/f58518d1c0c3dcaf

    spider plot
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/af04bb17c9a74ead

    How to do 3d line plots
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/620710253a40261d

    Windows env-Bug?
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/1247fdaf334bcd4a
    Actually NO, an empty env var is equivalent to unsetting on this platform.

    KeyPress event repeat delay and repeat interval
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/6484666568190439

    return in script executed by uplevel
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/cfe0c38da9607144

TIPX: new, used and discarded Tips
    nothing new here, walk on.

OOTW: Orphan of the week or questions nobody answered yet:
    TKGecko / Searching for XUL Tk compatibilities
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/ef6de33b6d04b2db


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

    "La Gazette du Técleux" is an important monthly publication.
	http://wfr.tcl.tk/1159

    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/

We're working on more useful archives of past installments.  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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