Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL!

QOTW:  "As long as computers have power cords, I can exit the application."
Derk Gwen  

POTW:  TSLC (Tcl Scripting Language Components) for Delphi seamlessly
integrates Tcl and Delphi code.
        http://tslc.sourceforge.net/  


    maurice ulis builds a small playground for learning about grid
    semantics.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=fe9c1efad8644b15

    No, *really*:  are you sure can Tcl be used in serious programs?
    Todd Coram thinks so, but that's just because he's been providing
    three million e-mail forwards monthly for Verizon, with no memory
    leaks, around the clock, updated "hot" to meet changing requirements
    (including spam invasions).
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/myvzw.com

    Bryan Oakley sketches a wicked hack for disconnecting an
    in-process GUI from user action.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=1bb30b27dc89a81f

    Don Porter teaches Tcl a one-line replacement for dos2unix
    and friends.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=e89931ca00ee3dcc

    Quite a few comp.lang.tcl threads have to do with special keys,
    window managers, and various interactions.  It's difficult to
    categorize all the information.  One example has to do with KDE's
    WM_SAVE_YOURSELF handling.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=3ffbffefb0c436aa

Thanks to Arjen Markus for his Wiki-watching:
    The dark days surrounding the end of the year on the Northern Hemisphere
    and the summer holidays on the Southern one made this last week fairly
    quiet. Nevertheless, there are at least a couple of pages worth exploring:
    - Gradient colouring on the canvas: George Stapleton shows it is possible
      and even attractive, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/6100>
    
    - A short introduction to the "interpreted scientific programming language"
      Yorick appears at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/4497>
    
    - Michael Cleverly shows a simple connection between Tk widgets and a DOM
      tree using Snit, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/6104>
    
    - The relation between the [break] command and widget bindings is an 
      intricate one, as <http://wiki.tcl.tk/6101> explains.
    
    - I bashfully add one of mine: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/6119> introduces a
      new category of Wiki pages, dedicated to educational software and
      hopes to contribute to that.

  
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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