QOTW:
> What is the use for the regexp -inline
It's brilliant - especially when used with -all!
Parag and Jonathan Bromley on c.l.t
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/10fb9daa0e3bb3f6
"vwait 8.5"
Steve Redler, Miguel, ...
POTW:
Re: [TCLCORE] 8.5 beta approaching by DGP
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=46DDBCF5.2020103%40nist.gov
In support of the effort to get Tcl/Tk 8.5b1 out the door, I've
updated the core-stabilizer-branch with merges from the HEAD,
and generated some release candidate source code distributions
from that branch for testing:
I don't think these are true release candidates. I expect there will
be a flurry of development on the HEAD over the next week. But
I still think it's worthwhile for people to test these, since they will
in many cases offer a first test of something calling itself 8.5b1.
Many folks may be surprised what code and/or build scripts they have
which might act unexpectedly differently when faced for the first time
with this new response from Tcl/Tk.
Download:
ftp://ftp.tcl.tk/pub/tcl/tcl8_5/tcl8.5b1-rc0-src.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.tcl.tk/pub/tcl/tcl8_5/tk8.5b1-rc0-src.tar.gz
Tcl/Tk 8.4.16 release candidates by DGP
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=46DDD34A.3070200%40nist.gov
Since the release machinery is fired up anyway, and there's some
interest in an 8.4.16 release too, here are some release candidates
for that:
Contrary to the 8.5 RC's, these are likely real or close to real,
since development/bug-fixing is quite a bit quieter on the
core-8-4-branch.
Download:
ftp://ftp.tcl.tk/pub/tcl/tcl8_4/tcl8.4.16-rc0-src.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.tcl.tk/pub/tcl/tcl8_4/tk8.4.16-rc0-src.tar.gz
ANNOUNCE: Business Information Dispatcher 1.0 by Andreas Otto
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/98f491d04cd5e2b4
The BID software was designed to apply business-rules to your eMail
traffic. A business-rule can be as easy as rewriting a header, to
route the eMail to an other recipient, up to setup a persistent work-
flow to realize a business-case. The BID software support all aspects
of business-automation like:
* receiving eMails from your already available Mail-Transport-Agent
* analyzing eMails to extract business-information
* joining and creation of new business-information
* creating of customized layouts to represent your corporate-identity
Emails are common used to transport business relevant information from
a sender to a receiver. Sources of business information are business-
applications, monitoring-applications or just the normal user asking
for or providing data. The goal of the BID tool was to automate the dis-
patching of this information and to join a business-case with a respon-
sible receiver. A receiver can be a human being or just an other BID
server customized for a special business-case. The BID server was de-
signed as generic server using a plugin to serve a specific business-rule.
The main features of the BID server are:
* link into the local Mail-Transport-Agent (UNIX)
* work as a single stand-alone application or as a peer-to-peer network
cluster available on every host in your domain
* receive emails for local or alias accounts
* rewrite email headers and join a business case with a responsible
receiver
* parse email bodies to do further processing
* including a local database to setup a perform a persistent workflow
* including a service to create HTML emails based on your corporate
identity using a template
* including a service to manage access from your secure internal network
to the Internet
* including a service to detect email spam and reduce network load
* including a service to access to your local email2sms gateway
* including a service to setup and maintain an email2sms mobile phone book
* including a service to monitor your local MTA, BID server and host
* including a quality framework to test and verify your business-rules
Homepage, Downloads:
http://bid.sourceforge.net
ANNOUNCE: Tkamixer V1.0
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/fbae4041e0c313e8
As a result of my first tries with Tcl/Tk, Tkamixer,
a graphical front-end to the amixer utility (ALSA),
has been published - and is available for download
Download:
http://www.ispid.com.pl/free/
ORBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl
Format quirks
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/f5fa670ce1b0b3d2
What is the purpose for the regexp -inline flag
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/10fb9daa0e3bb3f6
Tcl Extension Repository
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/37880730741c2050
simulating button clicks on a Tcl/Tk application
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/cdc8211da05cc2d8
subwindwo command using event generate
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/b031b4fe6578e0f5
TIPX: new, used and discarded Tips
nothing new here, walk on.
OOTW: Orphan of the week or questions nobody answered yet:
Tcl_Preserve() and Tcl_Release() for new interpreters
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/e30c87821b39ca71
PMAG:
numenta: a new tcl user !!
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/95644
http://www.numenta.com/
http://www.numenta.com/about-numenta/technology/pictures-demo.php
Thanks for Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki action:
Just two weeks to go until the 14th Tcl conference. So no time
to lose ...
Implement-it-yourself
- Every Tcl programmer at some point invents his/her own OO system
or his/her own debugger - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19872>
- ... or improves an existing one: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19873>.
- The more graphically minded can try their teeth on 3D visualisation:
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/10529> (note for the lazy ones among us: there
is a precompiled Windows DLL for this one).
- ... or tame the canvas widget so that it will diligently produce
a PDF file: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19851>
- Of course there is fun in re-implementing the entire language too:
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/19625> - with an accent on security.
- Or just a convenient parser for templates of code ...
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/19864>
Just use it
- But sometimes you can use and improve what is already there:
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/5151> provides the combination of Gnome and Tcl,
but it works different from Tk and Tcl.
- An old invention, pie menus, and not often seen, but perhaps you
can put them to good use: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19847>
- Latin? Japanese? These two very different languages are used in
two very different applications, but Tcl/Tk is a common element:
The French page <http://wfr.tcl.tk/988> leads you to them.
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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