Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (May 18)
Cameron Laird
assertion." -- Donal K. Fellows
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/b8a9d0c730c75d98
"[U]nlike other lang[uage]s ... if you wonna know the internals [of
Tcl], you can." -- shishini, yet another admirer of the lucidity of
the source implementation of Tcl
POTW: Michael Kirkham's TclMilter expands Sendmail scripting beyond the C
that Sendmail's maintainers find natural (and the other high-level language
bindings that antedate it).
http://www.muonics.com/FreeStuff/TclMilter/
Andreas Leitgeb and Darren New explain good style in use
of [upvar] and [return].
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/539c259e909f63ff/
Display an image in a Tktable cell:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/acd7a9ed536f4e75/
A fully-capable PocketPC port would take only a finite amount more
effort.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/e5566dffdb812dcb
The options database is so handy as to inspire generalization beyond
its usual widgetry employment. David Bigelow has experience and a
tip for working in this area, along with incidental praise of SNIT.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/8364842d3f0d515d/
Thanks to Arjen Markus for his report from the Wiki(s):
A potpourri of subjects again, but that is not unusual
on the Tclers' Wiki!
Little tools
- Start your favourite programs from this little menu ...
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/14135>
- Need to justify text to the left or the right and you do
not want to remember the [format] command? Maybe this little
package is what you are looking for ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11554>
- If the name "code 39" does not mean anything to you, perhaps
"barcode" does. A practical tool to generate barcodes ...
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/9335>
Funny things
- A starry night on your screen, so you do not have wait too
long and have no problems with clouds ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14140>
- Here is a bit of math: draw a curve defined by its parametric
equations - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14130>
Promises
- Getting the message across - well, on the same machine anyway
- this system is geared to data analysis - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3317>
- Ah, printing! The eternal subject that causes so much debate ...
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/2496>
- Will Tcl 8.5 have _proper_ integers at last? Many people want
to get rid of the annoying limitation of ordinary computer
arithmetic - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10942>
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
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
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
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
http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.tcl/
Cetus Links maintains a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/
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