ANNOUNCE: V0.3 of Palm Tcl for Palm OS

[Ashok Nadkarni]

What it is:
Palm Tcl is based on version 7.6 of the Tcl language and supports most of
its features. Version 0.3 of Palm Tcl supports the following Palm OS
specific features:

User interface elements: title bars, menus, labels, text fields, lists,
buttons, repeating buttons, push buttons, checkboxes, selector triggers,
popup triggers, time and date selectors, tables.
Palm OS database support: listing, creation, deletion, updates of databases
System functions - sound, clipboard copy/paste, launching applications,
system event handling (graffiti, hardware buttons etc.)

Where to get it:
Palm Tcl is hosted on SourceForge at http://palm-tcl.sourceforge.net. Do not
confuse this with palmtcl.sourceforge.net which is a different unrelated
project (unfortunate clash of names).

Comments and questions go to "p a l m t c l @ y a h o o . c o m" or
comp.lang.tcl. Please do not reply by email to this message.

/Ashok

[lvi...@yahoo.com]

According to Ashok Nadkarni <ashokn...@hotmail.com>:
: Do not

:confuse this with palmtcl.sourceforge.net which is a different unrelated
:project (unfortunate clash of names).

Yes - but it does seem obvious that two people porting Tcl to a PalmOS
environment might choose a name with Palm and Tcl in it. Wouldn't it
be nice if SF.net, before approving a project name, returned a list of
similarly named projects ? Then when someone like yourself comes along
starting a project new to themselves, they can know what potential
conflicts are out there.

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[lvi...@yahoo.com]

Has anyone out there written anything with this version of Tcl?
I'd really be interested in seeing what has been done with it.

[Mac Cody]

Larry,

This may not directly answer your question, but I'm about to
release an integrated development environment for GNU/Linux
and Windows for developing PalmTcl applications. The IDE is
written in Tcl/Tk, of course. As part of the documentation,
I've developed a small example application. It doesn't do
a whole lot, but it does demonstrate how easy it is to build
a Palm application using PalmTcl. I hope to make a formal
announcement in c.l.t and c.l.t.a in a day or so. I just
need to generate the new distribution archives and generate
the announcement message.

Mac