This week's Tcl-URL

QOTW:  "Everything's obvious and easy if you don't have to do it
yourself."  Darren New

"Good luck and fun with TCL. Beware, it can grow on you."  Roy Terry

"The entire panedwindow widget test suite was written before a line of
code on the panedwindow was done."  Jeffrey Hobbs


POTW:  "Toucan is an integrated development environment (IDE) for
developing applications for the Palm OS ..."  http://toucan.sourceforge.net/      

    The latest combobox might uncover a difficulty with some window
    managers and the latest Tk code.  Bryan Oakley offers help to
    those encountering the symptom.
        http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=6d247d49f5e3340e

    The latest TDK bundles a remarkable combination of goodies, 
    including a new plugin (!), a validated TclSvc, and a major
    enhancement to ProWrap.
	http://www.ActiveState.com/TclDevKit/beta

    The best way to round might surprise you.  Don Porter explains.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?frame=left&th=a256eb505a2097b4


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his Wiki-watching:
  - For the price of some 200 lines of code, you can have a fully operational
    coffee machine. Okay, the print is German, but the coffee is brown and 
    warm - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8192>
  
  - Just look at that: chatting in various languages - from Chinese via 
    Japanese to Klingon. And as a bonus: a description of the design.
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8190>
  
  - The VNC viewer that was written in Tcl/Tk is now available via Tcllib.
    Together with some encryption, it should make a nice little tool.
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/6269> and <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8196>
  
  - In search of a way to look at geographical maps using Tcl/Tk? Well,
    this venerable page got updated too, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/736>, and
    contains a lot of links.
  
  - There is a new (compiled) language in development, it is called D,
    and Pat Thoyts created a nice little Tcl interface to it,
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/6261>
  
  - Finally a few pages about Tcl techniques:
    - Event programming and why it is important is explained on 
      <http://wiki.tcl.tk/489>
    - Iterating through an array directly? Most of us do not think about
      that, yet all the tools are there - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/6281>
    - Namespaces introduce some scoping problems, see 
      <http://wiki.tcl.tk/6284> for a comprehensive example 
    - The page on complex data structures could do with a set of examples,
      any one who wants to help out? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2995>
    
  
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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