Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Jan 14)
Cameron Laird
all about geeks striving to use technology to avoid having to interact with
humans." - Colin McCormack
Mats Bengtsston passed away:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/9313176c08f4c4d5/
http://www.codebykevin.com/blosxom.cgi/2009/01/14#mats
http://thecoccinella.org/mats-bengtsson
Googie and I think TileQt's prospects suddenly brightened dramatically:
http://www.qtsoftware.com/about/news/lgpl-license-option-added-to-qt
TKproE 2.0 supports 8.5 and themed widgets:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/3022093ef84c8189
Thanks to Arjen Markus for his (mostly) weekly summary of Wiki action:
The new year is in full progress - and so is the Wiki.
Text things
- Here are the foundations for a text widget that lets you easily
set font attributes and the like: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/5460>
- Or what about picking the colours for displaying text with
the care that deserves? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22218>
- And when you have the text, you may want to put it in a
PDF-file. So here is <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13449>
Network things
- Need to retrieve information about things on your network?
Perhaps <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17493> can help
- Noblesse oblige: using coroutines for networking at
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/22231>
Last but not least
- Manage your images by a tag, not by file name -
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/22208>
- Strings are not the only data structure to hold pieces of
text ... "Ropes" are at least an interesting alternative
- <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20690>
- The French Tclers have a tradition of posting games in the
French newsgroup on Tcl - <http://wfr.tcl.tk/1710>
- And another worthy tradition they have is the yearly Youpi
award - even if you don't read French, you'll understand it:
<http://wfr.tcl.tk/1705>
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. Dave
Williams generously is building up
http://www.bacomatic.org/~dw/comp/tclurl/index.htm
and of course Google gives us
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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Frédéric Bonnet
> - Strings are not the only data structure to hold pieces of
> text ... "Ropes" are at least an interesting alternative
> - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20690>
For those interested, I've published this week an experimental
implementation of ropes in C, available here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=216988
I've also posted some details on the Tcl-Core list.