QOTW:
"It often took longer to decide what to do than to do it"
Michael Cleverly as told to the group by Bryan Oakley
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/3f4bb785c19a869f
"There are strengths and weaknesses of both models, threads vs. events.
In my server, there is a natural separation of work, where events are
the best fit for some work, threads for other work. And since Tcl has
both, I can use both."
John Kelly
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/57e729ec9c31595a
POTW:
Tcl/Tk 8.5b1 RELEASED
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/72edf1e63f1986e2
The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.5b1 releases of the Tcl
dynamic language and the Tk toolkit. This is the first beta release of
Tcl/Tk 8.5. More details can be found below. We would like to express
our gratitude to all those who submit bug reports and patches. This
information is invaluable in enabling us to identify and eliminate
problems in the core.
Homepage:
http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.5.html
Downloads:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10894
[RELEASE] Aejaks 0.6 by Tom Poindexter
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/3dc490d957a6875
About Aejaks:
Aejaks combines the server-side Ajax windowing system Echo2 with the
powerful simplicity of the Tcl langauge. The result is a rich development
environment in which to develop Ajax-based web applications, often with
much less code to write. Aejaks runs on top of a Java Servlet engine,
and can make use of any existing Java library.
Highlights for 0.6:
* New Widgets - from EchopointNG
o AbleProperties
o ComboBox (includes type-ahead autocomplete)
o DirectHtml (arbitrary HTML in a DIV)
o ExpandableSection
o GroupBox
o ProgressBar
o Slider
o TextFieldEx (includes client-side regexp validation)
* New BrowserCommand options: javascript eval, javascript include, print
* New Clock and NumberGuess sample apps, contributed by Geoffrey Wu.
Note that the Aejaks/Tcl version of NumberGuess is less than one-third
the size of the equivalent Echo2/Java version!
* Lots of clean-up of the automated object build system.
* Misc. bug fixes, documentation updates.
Full change list: http://aejaks.sourceforge.net/CHANGES.txt
Homepage:
http://aejaks.sourceforge.net/
Download:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=184611
[ANNOUNCE] New version of RamDebugger 6.1.1
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/1d4f16d079e8a9a6
Introduction
RamDebugger is a graphical debugger for the scripting lenguage Tcl-TK.
With RamDebugger, it is possible to make Local Debugging, where the
debugger starts the program to be debugged. and Remote debugging, where
the program to debug is already started and RamDebugger connects to it.
RamDebugger has additional capabilities like:
* Editing the code. It is possible to edit the code inside its own
editor and resend the new code without closing the debugged program.
* The TCL-TK source code is colorized and supports automatic indentation.
* When stopping the debugger is one source code line, it is possible
to view all the variables and expression values, as well as change them.
* It has additional options to measure execution times in the debugged
program. Works in Linux and Windows
* Includes additional packages, like Tkcon and VisualRegexp, developed
by third party people, as a convenience for RamDebugger users.
* The same program is an IDE for compiling and debugging c and c++
Homepage:
http://www.compassis.com/ramdebugger
Downloads:
ftp://ftp.compassis.com/pub/ramdebugger
ANNOUNCE: eTcl 1.0-rc23 (based on 8.4.16)
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/2380146d32329aa3
I'm pleased to announce immediate availability of eTcl 1.0-rc23 for
Windows, linux-x86, linux-arm (softfloat and hardfloat), linux-mipsel,
linux-powerpc (including Linux on Playstation 3), Windows Mobile (2003,
2003SE, 5.0 and 6.0) pocketPC and smartphones, and Mac OS X (Aqua) as
universal binary (x86 and PPC).
Homepage:
http://www.evolane.com/
Downloads:
http://www.evolane.com/software/etcl/index.html
Infos:
http://wiki.tcl.tk/eTcl
http://wiki.tcl.tk/15260
http://wiki.tcl.tk/19642
MEET:
The 14th Annual Conference ( after the fact )
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/50bd01edd2cac130
ORBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl
Using Javascript from Tcl?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/d1df8f174495e234
How to create Captcha with TclMagick?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/622443c5610dda34
how to debug "no such variable"
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/22b1c231ee4b80e8
OT: load distribution algorithm
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/cd29ab8e5b9fe31a
clock scan 8.4/8.5 incompatibility?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/674e634b95b4af3
TIPX: new, used and discarded Tips
nothing new here, walk on.
OOTW: Orphan of the week or questions nobody answered yet:
tclBlend - binary version
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/f43885318047b79d
Cannot get cwsh (ck8.0) going
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/2bc61b1def1d813f
SnODBC problems persist on Linux ! Please help
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/015fff8bbb957900
Import tool for Quality Centre 9
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/a9ef6c7686054c3a
PMAG: Tcl in printed and other Media:
When Choice is Demotivating: Can One Desire too Much of a Good Thing?
http://www.columbia.edu/~ss957/whenchoiceabstract.htm
This was mentioned in some discussion on parallel programming.
The connection to Tcl lies in the "Choiciness" this language provides.
Thanks for Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki action:
Yes, we have reached page 20000! Uhm, that is "20000" not factorial(20000).
While that page by itself only has an interesting title, tcl::mathop::>,
no contents, others do have contents well worth reading. For instance:
A tool or two
- Using DDE to make Acrobat jump through hoops: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20088>
- Nowadays we have no lack of memory or disk space ... Or do we?
Here are some tools to monitor the memory that is being used:
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/4559>
- Compile and link and run your own C extensions without having to
have a compiler and linker installed: Critcl has gained a
companion - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20086>
A picture tells more ...
- If we did not have Scene, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15779>, which is part
of eTcl, we would still have <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17771> with
yet another demo
- The yearly conference may have ended and the words that were spoken
may exist only in the memories of the attendees, but we stil have
the summaries! <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17034> will guide you to the
summaries made "in vivo" by Michael Cleverly.
- Astronomers can make beautiful pictures ... Is it any wonder there
is a Tcl package to help them do that? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17633>
Experiments
- If we had no Richard Suchenwirth, we might not see an experiment
like <http://wiki.tcl.tk/5892>
- Although, Slebetman is known to experiment with such basic
commands too: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20066>
- Is it a number? If not, what is it? The secrets of "Not-a-number"
on display, but not revealed: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17751>
- And finally, can we handle infinite sets? I mean: truly infinite
sets, albeit countable? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20067> is a new
page on the subject.
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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