README: Tcl-URL! - the weekly guide to Tcl resources
Cameron Laird
Is it really vacation season? There's space to mention only a frac-
tion of the thoughtful announcements and analyses that appeared in
the last week:
Donal K. Fellows offers 75 lines of code to dump the
contents of a canvas
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~fellowsd/tcl/dumpcanv.tcl
Paul Duffin explains how to code a C interface to Tcl's
bytecode compiler to improve performance
http://x1.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=372390483
Bryan Oakley refines his "widget-morphing" to disable
selected entry functions
http://x9.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=373883803
and releases his pure-Tcl combobox
http://www1.clearlight.com/~oakley/tcl/combobox/index.html
Multiple posts during the week express satisfaction
with various offerings of Jay Sekora's JSTOOLS package
http://www.aq.org/~js/js-jstools.html
Andreas Kupries releases 1.2 of Trf and TrfCrypt, which
fold compression, error-correction, encryption, ... into
I/O in intelligent ways
ftp://ftp.westend.com/pub/aku/trf1.2.README
ftp://ftp.westend.com/pub/aku/trfcrypt1.2.README
Martin Schrape <MSch...@atomika.com> has ported 8.0p1 to
VxWorks, and plans to do the same for 8.1 (including
threads!) this summer.
Jeffrey Hobbs' FAQ on Tk usage has moved to
http://oprs.mchh.siemens.de/tcl/faqs/tk/
The Beta 5 release of TclPro includes its Wrapper, Checker,
and Compiler
http://www.scriptics.com/beta
MathWizards, Inc. releases a beta of MathXplorer/T.
http://www.mathwizards.com/products/tcl
Tycho Slate is the Tycho project's mature refinement
of the canvas widget
http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/~johnr/code/slate/
Everything you want is probably one or two clicks away in these pages:
The "Welcome to comp.lang.tcl" message by Andreas Kupries
http://www.westend.com/~kupries/c.l.t.welcome.html
Larry Virden maintains a comp.lang.tcl FAQ launcher
http://www.teraform.com/~lvirden/tcl-faq/
Scriptics maintains a highly organized Tcl resource center
http://www.scriptics.com/resource/
NeoSoft has a comp.lang.tcl contributed sources archive
http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/contributed-software/
Cameron Laird tracks many Tcl/Tk references of interest
http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/comp.lang.tcl/tcl.html
Tcl/Tk Consortium can search comp.lang.tcl and c.l.t.announce
http://www.tclconsortium.org/resources/
Cetus Links maintains a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html
Posts on comp.lang.tcl.announce are archived by XPI ("Tix")
http://www.xpi.com/tcl/comp.lang.tcl.announce/
A new resource center, maintained by UNIFIX
http://www.unifix-online.com/tcltk/resources.html
(In case of frames problems, use
http://www.unifix-online.com/ and go to Tcl/Tk Section)
Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here:
http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=~g%20comp.lang.tcl%20Tcl-URL%21
Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome.
-- Cameron, substituting for Jean-Claude
--
Cameron Laird http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/home.html
cla...@NeoSoft.com +1 713 996 8546 FAX
lvi...@cas.org
I have to say how much I appreciate this weekly posting.
Back in the old days when Java first started, there was a project called
Digital Espresso which attempted to summarize into a 'newsletter' form
what was going on in the newsgroups. The folk working on that project
eventually gave up on providing updates and I sorely miss it.
Tcl isn't as voluminous a community as Java was (and is) but it is
starting to pick up a bit. Having a way to summarize the salient points
from the past week is, to me, a valuable contribution to the community
and I want to thank those of you involved with it's production,
as well as those providing FAQ maintenance and other similar functions
to the community for all that you have done over the years - but particularly
over the past year.
Each of your efforts are appreciated.
--
<URL:mailto:lvi...@cas.org> Quote: In heaven, there is no panic,
<*> O- <URL:http://www.teraform.com/%7Elvirden/> only planning.
Unless explicitly stated to the contrary, nothing in this posting
should be construed as representing my employer's opinions.
Cameron Laird
Tclers persist in articulating wonderfully informative analyses:
Mark Harrison explains the "8.0.3" about which insiders have
been talking. He closes with the momentous news that "John O.
has suggested putting the Tcl core on an anonymous CVS server."
!!
http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=376579188
Alexandre Ferrieux releases a marvelous tutorial on "Concepts
of Architectural Design for Tcl Applications"
ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/sorted/text/tclarch.txt
Discussions on bug reports, the Tcl development process,
and allied topics breaks out in a number of threads,
including
http://www.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&what=news&
text=yes&q=%2B%228.0.3%22+%2B%22comp.lang.tcl%22&search=Search
Programming of fileevents again proves a fertile source of
discussion and education
http://www.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&what=news&
text=yes&q=%2B%22comp.lang.tcl%22+%2B%22nasty+fileevent%22&
search=Search
Martin Shepherd concludes the "How can I make tclsh event-
driven" thread with a definitive code offering
http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=374991668
while Victor Wagner reminds readers of TkCon
http://oprs.mchh.siemens.de/tcl/script/tkcon/
Rodney explains the-product-formerly-known-as-OpenNT from a
c.l.t perspective
http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=376257964.1
Don Libes masterfully introduces named-pipe programming
http://x4.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=376071080
Everything you want is probably one or two clicks away in these pages:
The "Welcome to comp.lang.tcl" message by Andreas Kupries
http://www.westend.com/~kupries/c.l.t.welcome.html
Larry Virden maintains a comp.lang.tcl FAQ launcher
http://www.teraform.com/~lvirden/tcl-faq/
Scriptics maintains a highly organized Tcl resource center
http://www.scriptics.com/resource/
NeoSoft has a comp.lang.tcl contributed sources archive
http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/contributed-software/
Cameron Laird tracks many Tcl/Tk references of interest
http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/comp.lang.tcl/tcl.html
Tcl/Tk Consortium can search comp.lang.tcl and c.l.t.announce
http://www.tclconsortium.org/resources/
Cetus Links maintains a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html
Posts on comp.lang.tcl.announce are archived by XPI ("Tix")
http://www.xpi.com/tcl/comp.lang.tcl.announce/
A new resource center, maintained by UNIFIX
http://www.unifix-online.com/tcltk/resources.html
(In case of frames problems, use
http://www.unifix-online.com/ and go to Tcl/Tk Section)
Links2Go is a new semi-automated link collection; it's impressive
what AI can generate
http://www.links2go.com/topic/TCL/TK
Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here:
http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=~g%20comp.lang.tcl%20Tcl-URL%21
Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome.
-- Cameron, substituting for Jean-Claude
Administrative notes: thanks to Jeffrey Hobbs and Larry Virden for their
support of this project. Also, I'm looking to hand the reins over to a
new reporter, so I can move on to other projects.
Alexandre Ferrieux
Sorry, the URL for the architecture guide is supposed to be:
ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/sorted/info/doc/tclarch.txt
I am responsible for spreading the wrong one with 'sorted/text' :)
-Alex