QOTW:
> if 1 [ linsert [ grid slaves .m ] 0 grid forget ]
Okay, that's painfully clever. I don't think it quite reaches the level
of 'elegant', but it's close. It somehow reminds me of Bullwinkle
accidentally pulling a rhinoceros out of a hat.
Me and Bobby McGee er Alan Anderson on c.l.t
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/c5d71e05b5dbd97f
ZB, don't even *try* to figure out what's going on here unless you enjoy
unraveling knots (or solving murder mysteries). :-)
POTW:
ANN: TclTalk 0.3.7 by Shin (the Djiin?)
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/f7e7abbe8697ca0d
TclTalk (Browsers And Workspaces For Tclkit) has reached 0.3.7. I
fixed some bugs with "File/Save,Save As...", which came up after
switching to Ctext. There is also a new feature: Integrated SDX
functionality.
To create turnkey starkits, TclTalk no longer needs a copy of sdx.exe
or sdx.kit lying around.
Homepage:
http://tcltalk.ath.cx
ANNOUNCE: libmsgque 2.4 by Andreas Otto
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/d5cb1362107ee43a
The libmsgque project is an infrastructure for linking applications
together to act like a single application. This is done using unix or
inet domain sockets. The framework handles all aspects of setting up
and maintaining the link:
* starting and stopping the different applications,
* starting and stopping the communication interface,
* sending and receiving packages,
* reading and writing data from or into packages,
* setting up and maintaining the event handling for
asynchronous transfers, and
* propagating warnings or errors.
What is new:
The new release (2.4) adds the following features:
* add the port of libmsgque to windows (win32)
* add the port of libmsgque to processors with alignment
restrictions (sparc)
* add support for new acmd tools:
- astarter to add the UNIX x(inetd) capability to default users
(including windows users)
- aexec to do remote execution using libmsgque protocol
* some bug fixes and a lot of code/test-case cleanup
Homepage:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/freiburg
ANNOUNCE: tclterm 1.3 by Andreas Otto
tclterm is a tcl package to provide curses layout to tcl
What is new:
The new release (1.3) adds the following features:
* add support for automake/libtool
* some minor code and documentation cleanup
P.S.: this small project is a good example to build a
tcl binary packages using the default GNU tools:
autoconf, automake and libtool
Homepage:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/tclterm
ORBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl
"booster-label" - why does it work such way? (8.4.12 on Debian Etch)
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/e1f03b6506e7f7bc
format() under TCL v. 8.4
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/d2a94176c33e0d88
Format quirks
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/f5fa670ce1b0b3d2
Help! mem leak in c extension.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/95fbfeab7f9c2bd5
Using 8.5 Dict ... huh?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/32fa115f8aef9d1f
Variables in "-command {}"
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/2a42253f76d0b26d
The vagaries of globalisation :-)
catch replacing useful errorInfo
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/4dd1c0a1eba12999
TclDevKit 3.2 & 8.4.15 & 8bpp versus 32bpp Icons
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/35c16ec9b3eaa561
TIPX: new, used and discarded Tips
TIP 307 by Erik Leunissen : Make TclTransferResult() Public
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/307.html
is a new TIP
PMAG: Tcl in printed or other media
Extensive Cheat Sheet for Tcl/Tk
http://home.houston.rr.com/brianohagan/tcl_tk_ref_guide.html
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/ad109b38b4bd6931
Thanks for Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki action:
The following pages on the Wiki attracted your chronicler's
attention ... but those are not the only interesting ones!
Analyse this game
- Sudokus can be regarded in different fashions -
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/24281>
- If you design a board game, make sure it will
stop at some point - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/12642>
- Time to look at yet another 3D demo - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17771>
The way things are
- Certain things are easy to automate, like putting together
get and set functions for Itcl in the best OO tradition
- <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17667>
- Some things may be the cause of trouble despite their
usefulness. Namespaces and their caveats discussed at
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/15643>
- One or two things have outlived all their usefulness,
one might argue. One "gotcha" in Tcl: a leading zero ...
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/19838>
Just marvel
- The title is inconspicuous, but if you are interested
in (classical, physical) mechanics, take a look at
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/19842>
- A flower ... no, a dumpbell, no uh ... a mathematical
formula, displayed at the French wiki - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/754>
- Another nicety: all partitions of (positive) integers that
add up to a particular sum. Do not be scared by the French
text - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1504>
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
Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome.
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