Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Sep 24)
Cameron Laird
"[I]t's always a better idea to expect something than to use delays, when
there is something you can expect." - aspect
Anyone with an interest in Tcl's connections to the real world
should read Newsletter #8 from the Open Instrumentation Project:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/d40914abc2afe3cf?
Tablelist is at 4.10:
http://www.nemethi.de/tablelist/CHANGES.txt
From Tk to Ttk:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/dde04b428b619a31/
TIPX: Uwe Klein reports on new, used and discarded Tips for the week 37
TIP 195 by Peter Spjuth : A Unique Prefix Handling Command
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/195.html
Title has changed ( was Script Access to Tcl_GetIndexFromObj )
Vote: In progress and Done
State has changed from Draft to Accepted
TIP 236 by Neil McKay : Absolute Positioning of Canvas Items
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/236.html
Vote: In progress and Done
State has changed from Draft to Accepted
TIP 240 by Steve Bold : An Ensemble Command to Manage Processes
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/240.html
Vote: In progress and still pending
TIP 252 by Brian Schmidt : Add New 'string' Command Options
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/252.html
Vote: In progress and Done
State has changed from Draft to Rejected
TIP 265 by Sam Bromley : A Convenient C-side Command Option Parser for Tcl
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/265.html
Vote: In progress and Done
State has changed from Draft to Accepted
TIP 308 by Kevin B. Kenny : Tcl Database Connectivity (TDBC)
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/308.html
Vote: In progress and Done
State has changed from Draft to Accepted
TIP 312 by Rene Zaumseil : Add More Link Types
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/312.html
Title has changed ( was Create 'link' Command and Add More Link Types )
Vote: In progress and still pending
TIP 313 by Peter Spjuth : Inexact Searching in Sorted List
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/313.html
Vote: In progress and Done
State has changed from Draft to Accepted
TIP 314 by Lars Hellström : Ensembles with Parameters
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/314.html
Vote: In progress and Done
State has changed from Draft to Accepted
TIP 315 by Hai Vu : Add pathSeparator to tcl_platform Array
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/315.html
Vote: In progress and Done
Vote: Done
State has changed from Draft to Accepted
TIP 316 by Donal K. Fellows : Portable Access Functions for Stat Buffers
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/316.html
Vote: In progress and Done
State has changed from Draft to Accepted
TIP 318 by Bill Poser : Extend Default Whitespace in 'string trim' Beyond ASCII
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/318.html
Vote: In progress and Done
State has changed from Draft to Accepted
TIP 320 by Donal K. Fellows : Improved Variable Handling in the Core Object System
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/320.html
Vote: In progress and Done
State has changed from Draft to Accepted
TIP 321 by Jos Decoster : Add a tk::busy Command
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/321.html
Vote: In progress and Done
State has changed from Draft to Accepted
TIP 323 by Colin McCormack : Do Nothing Gracefully
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/323.html
Vote: In progress and Done
State has changed from Draft to Accepted
TIP 325 by David N. Welton : System Tray Access
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/325.html
is a new TIP
TIP 326 by Kieran Elby : Add -group Option to lsort
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/326.html
is a new TIP
Title has changed ( was Add -group Option to lsort
Vote: Done
State has changed from Draft to Accepted
hey, thats fast!
TIP 327 by Miguel Sofer : Proper Tailcalls
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/327.html
is a new TIP
TIP 328 by Miguel Sofer : Coroutines
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/328.html
is a new TIP
Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki action:
A large number of pages has been updated this week, but only a few
caught your chronicler's attention. Well, an autumnal mood is setting
in ...
Cooperation please
- For those intersted in new language constructs, both iterators
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/3961> and cooperation via coroutines
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/21619> are worth a visit.
- Actions are another concept that seems to make a lot of sense:
especially to simply your GUIs - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11505>
- Smart software should not get too smart. Entering dates into
a user-interface is an area that requires lots of care -
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/3019>
- We have seen various discussions about what method to use to build a
website ... Here is another contribution: a framework to use the
REST method. <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21623>
Simple and elegant
- This French page picks up the Tcl bindings to GTK ... SWIG
in action: <http://wfr.tcl.tk/1684>
- When you restrict yourself a bit, you can easily program Tcl
in C style - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1285>
- Is Tcl's chronology so linear? Well, even if it is not, here
is a nice crystal-clear overview: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1721>
- Who needs brilliant and diverting graphics, when you can have
a text-based adeventure game? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21135>
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. In the
meantime, an alternative is
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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