Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Nov 19)
Cameron Laird
can see that being a common mistake with the new behavior that might be
missed." - USCode on {incr $i} in 8.5
Alex shows how easy it is to keep a healthy distance from
the C-Tcl API:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/c759d17139e3dffc
Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki action:
The Wiki seems to be gaining yet another feature - a summary
of the changes. We'll see how useful that turns out to be.
Meanwhile: here is the weekly summary.
Development tools
- Need a GUI-builder? Maybe TkVSform is something for you.
This has been revived recently: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2477>
- Itcl-ng is based on the TclOO extension, check out the
latest news at: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/19873>
- Dou you know Swig? If not and you are extending Tcl with
a C library, definitely have a look: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/719>.
Or perhaps, for some examples, go directly to this French page:
<http://wfr.tcl.tk/1693>
Fun stuff
- Get the code from these pages and manipulate it a bit,
that is what Twig is all about. Examples and questions answered
at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21913>
- Stick figures, anyone? Or better: is it possible to do
animations like the ones referred to on this page -
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/21905>
Serious stuff
- As we all know floating-point arithmetic is a black art.
Or is it simpler than that? Well, it turns out to be
fairly simple to obtain its characters with Tcl in the same
way as a library like LAPACK does: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21926>
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
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USCode
> QOTW: "I understand that is the substitution nature of Tcl, however I
> can see that being a common mistake with the new behavior that might be
> missed." - USCode on {incr $i} in 8.5
>
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/e4c3516a0d1d9e94