Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Nov 11)
Cameron Laird
data and you will avoid 99.99% of all Quoting Hell." - Neil Madden
Do 8.4 and 8.5 diverge for as fundamental a widget as the radiobutton?
Yes:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/229cd9d2b1810cfb
Almost inevitably, enthusiasts such as Arndt Roger Schneider have
accounted for this, too.
For some, quoting subtlety is not hell, but a fertile landscape:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/ea86a46f1232a567
Notice Arjen's simple, elegant, and lazy illustration.
Gerald Lester shows that none only can the associations of mouse
events be remapped, but, in our favorite EIAS language, everything
is fully programmable, dynamic, and portable:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/b973abce7398f38d
One brief thread, two important facts: Csaba Nemethi supports
Tablelist well; and case might become insignificant in package
names:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/30ef9ebaeb4e236e
Installation of The Plugin on Firefox3 is bumpy, at least until
Jeff Hobbs wraps up another fix:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/2c8db9028bcb3198/
Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki action:
Another week has passed, with lots of activity on the Wiki and
luckily Google will probably find it again (http://wiki.tcl.tk/21841)
GUI things
- Drag and drop can be made simple, as illustrated by
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/21872>. Try it and comment on it.
- Whether dockable windows are a Good Thing or not, here is
a little framework for using them within Tcl/Tk:
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/21846>
- And while we are at it, what about undo/redo without limitations?
Here is how it is done with Gtk widgets and suitable Tcl bindings
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/21714>
An application or three
- Anyone fancy working on a Tcl/Tk-only office package?
Visit <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21844>
- Part of such a package could be a spreadsheet, here is the
code for one such application: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/7632>
- Here is an editor that supports Tcl syntax with lots of modern
features: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20977>
Last but not least
- Marketing Tcl should be a piece of cake, with this picture!
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/17083>
- Vertical text (or text at any angle) should be easy from now
on - just follow the yellow brick road to the Half Bakery
that starts at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8429>
- And those monthly 3D demos keep coming: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17771>
now shows projected textures ...
- Not all is graphics! Text-based games are fun too:
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/21324>
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
Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome.
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