Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL!

QOTW:  "I didn't want to create a portable application, but Tcl did
without me realizing it."  anonymous

"What does it say about you and your social circle when you consider an
open 802.11b network an act of hospitality?"  Robin L. Miller               

"For parsing XML, the right answer is almost always 'Use a real XML parser.'"
                   Joe English  


    Conference proceedings are on-line.
	http://aspn.ActiveState.com/ASPN/Tcl/Reference/

    What does it take to make GUI details visually identical on different
    platforms?
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=ddf0bbf26c9960ec

    Byte-code management is only one of several features available with
    a special binary.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=8569a6e1d6699fcb


Thanks to Arjen for the highlights of the week on the Wiki:
    The Wiki itself is subject to change. Do you want to know what is new in a
    page? Try <http://wiki.tcl.tk/4763> and <http://wiki.tcl.tk/4788> for a
    technical explanation.
    
    Two pages that deal with GUIs:
    - Dragging and dropping is easy enough with Tk applications. Check out
      <http://wiki.tcl.tk/416> for details. If you want to go beyond Tk, 
      follow the links.
    - Menus are fairly easy to do in Tcl/Tk, now they are even easier,
      <http://wiki.tcl.tk/4710>
    
    We all know that Tcl gives you the power to create new control structures,
    but we do not do that too often. Maybe "dispatch" is what you need,
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/4715> 
    
    XML is the topic of a bunch of new pages, have a look at what Richard
    Suchenwirth did to play around with SAX - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/4786>
    
    A few techniques to round off this summary:
    - State space searching explained, and illustrated by Neil Madden
      <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1281> and <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1286>
    - Simple class/object commands? An alternative OO-system by Joe Mistachkin,
      <http://wiki.tcl.tk/4697>
    - When in need of encryption/decryption, it does not hurt to do a bit of
      maths first, then have a fellow-Tcler review the code and, eh presto,
      a concise little function to compute the modulo of extremely large
      numbers, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/4709>
    

Everything 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

    Larry Virden maintains a comp.lang.tcl FAQ launcher
        http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-FAQ/

    Brent Welch maintains "The Tcl Developer Xchange", a highly
    organized resource center of documents and software with
    provisions for individuals to "set up a link to your software
    and update ... as you release new versions."
        http://www.tcl.tk/resource/
    The Xchange sponsor 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 Tools maintains a Cookbook of Tcl recipes
	http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Tcl

    NeoSoft has a comp.lang.tcl contributed sources archive
        http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/contributed-software/

    Cameron Laird tracks many Tcl/Tk references of interest
        http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/comp.lang.tcl/

    Cetus Links maintains a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
        http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html

    Google Groups archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts
	http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/   

Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here:
  http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/url.html
--in principal.  In spring 2001, though,
  http://www.ddj.com/topics/tclurl/
  http://tcl.activestate.com:8004/tclurl/
are more consistently up-to-date.  A fourth possibility is                 
  http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lang.tcl  

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