Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Mar 27)
Cameron Laird
Most people get that stuff wrong all of the time. We need a data structure
to make it easier, and functions which manipulate that data structure, so
that u sers don't care in general how it works." - George Peter Staplin
An exciting (and grammatical) existence proof for a type theory of
(most of) Tk!
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/e6b651f20ebf2fa9
GSoC is a-happening, thanks to Tomasz, Clif, Jeff, ...
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=tcl-soc2008
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/39ebfb7c83accb1f
Recent convert Webb Sprague hopes to represent Tcl publically
in Portland this approaching almost-solstice. He invites help:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/2f096cbf4926e8ac
Alex-who-says-he-rarely-GUIs and Neil give good advice for
quick generation of a widget that looks like something else,
but behaves differently: hack the bindings:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/e0ceeb42f6fbf042/
gsfonts-x11 and Tk play together poorly. Joe English and others
provide intelligence on Linux packaging, Tk versions, and simple
readability:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/c28ed07a5b632444/
Thanks to Arjen Markus for his (mostly) weekly summary of Wiki action:
Have you noticed the "message-of-the-day" feature on the Wiki yet?
If not, do read it: information on upcoming events! But now:
the summary.
User experience
- A nice little file selection dialogue: all ready for use with
themed widgets - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15897>
- This must be the cutest calculator in the world. No space wasted
on buttons or anything! <http:/wiki.tcl.tk/23034>
- Ringtones made easy: startle your cat, using <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22736>
- An extensive explanation on how to use Tk from the perspective
of several dynamic languages. Follow the link in
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/22898>
Deep questions
- Can we interrupt a long running computation, via a "Stop" button
for instance? This golden oldie asks that question and there
are a lot of answers: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/564>
- How do we get input from a user and use it safely? A question
with many facets, not all of them answered: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9749>
- A different sort of arrays ... or playing around with sorting
algorithms - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22791>
- The sieve of Eratosthenes revisited: this time we bring in the
power of coroutines - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21446>
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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