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Author Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Sep 5)
Uwe Klein

2006-09-05, 7:02 pm

QOTW: "I don't believe anything that I haven't measured myself." - Jesus
Rivas, world expert on *Eunectes murinus*, probably the world's largest snake
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2...nda/index1.html

"I must admit that from what I've seen, it appears to be more stable than
JAVA." - Eric Rice and ... "Thanks We do take a pretty stringent approach
to bugs here, and try to stamp them out with a mallet as soon as they show
their ugly faces :)." - ... and Jacob Levy from the past


POTW:
Tcl Plug-In for Eclipse by Greg Pierce
Just wanted to post a new message that I created a Tcl Plug-in
for Eclipse using TclBlend from the tcljava SourceForge project.
They have not included my changes into TclBlend as of yet.
Therefore, you'll have to apply my patch:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/inde...005&atid=313005

TileQt version 0.4 beta 1...
A new version of TileQt has been released, version 0.4 beta 1.
It can be found at:
http://www.ellogon.org/petasis/inde...id=24&Itemid=40

The most notable changes are the addition of support for the ttk::paned
and ttk::sizegrip widgets, as well as initial support for Qt 4.x
(currently, all widgets except scrollbar, notebook and scale are supported).
Also, a small graphical configuration utility has been added
(config-rpm.tcl) that can help configuring TileQt in rpm-based systems,
if both Qt 3.x & Qt 4.x (devel rpms) have been installed.
Of course many bugs have been fixed.

ORBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl
Twapi get primary domain controller
http://groups.google.com/group/comp...f60501912984adf

tcom: selecting instance to connect to...
http://groups.google.com/group/comp...c274546a8d14623

A good menu tutorial?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp...a84103870bcad6b

Creating nested safe interpreters and load Tk into it
http://groups.google.com/group/comp...e797c07f14eb833

Embedding Tk in an MFC application
http://groups.google.com/group/comp...adc95f6b0c5830d

I need to create a line graphic on a headless box
http://groups.google.com/group/comp...9af9081592c778b

TIPX: new, used and discarded Tips
nothing new here, walk on, but look left first:
Donal K Fellows seems to make progress with TIP 257
http://wiki.tcl.tk/14754

OOTW: Orphan of the w or questions nobody answered yet:
TWAIN dll for Tcl/Tk
http://groups.google.com/group/comp...b02d900d9e40055

URBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl this w TEN years ago:

ISO WWW collaborative software written in Tcl
http://groups.google.com/group/comp...6d1a1519a976daf

ISO package management question
http://groups.google.com/group/comp...0035b46fbebf08d

ARGH!
Tcl or Java? Both !
http://groups.google.com/group/comp...24b3429dbb59e59

Common LISP: The Next Generation
http://groups.google.com/group/comp...4f47a4441cdbb21


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his report on the Wiki:
A new season is nearing - wet and grey, depressing ...
But the French Wiki holds a lot of goodies for the
MacOSX programmers - so look at <http://wfr.tcl.tk/4>
if you can read French!

Bits and pieces
- KWWidgets is yet another GUI library, this one
cooperates smoothly with Tcl/Tk and has interfaces
to visualisation libraries - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/16657>

- While human beings can easily determine a nice range
for an axis in a plot, computers have to be carefully
instructed - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/16640> summarises
a few approaches.

- Uninvited guests on your computer ... some eavesdropping
on TCP/IP that you want to detect or prevent? Here are
two pages on that: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/12105> and
<http://wiki.tcl.tk/16639>

Only human
- What would the Tcl parser be mumbling, if it could
mumble? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1012> may provide insight
in the interpretation of your Tcl code.

- Biologists may be abhorred by the thought - trees
that can learn - but hush, it is only a programming
construct: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/16645>

- No code, just a true story about a company
- <http://wiki.tcl.tk/6126>


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

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/

Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are supposed to be
listed at *Dr. Dobbs*, but sy at CMP has fallen behind. We're working
with them to restore the archive.
http://www.ddj.com/topic/tcl/
In the meantime, an alternative is
http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=...p=comp.lang.tcl

Suggestions/corrections for next w's posting are always welcome.

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