Tcl-URL!

QOTW:  "The other big benefit is that even the most carefully drafted proposal
tends to have some details not spelled out.  If there's a draft
implementation, then the de facto answers to any questions can be determined
(and possibly objected to/ revised/ improved ) by reviewers." - Don Porter on
c.l.t
    http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/e1b10989...

"The W3C and MS deserve each other - crap design meets crap
implementation." - Steve Landers


POTW:
    ANNOUNCE: tkpath 0.2.4
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...
    Tkpath is an extension package to Tcl/Tk that provides much improved
    graphic drawing capabilities for the canvas widget. It is best
    described
    by looking at the sample web pages:
    http://tclbitprint.sourceforge.net/tkpath/quartz/index.html
    http://tclbitprint.sourceforge.net/tkpath/gdiplus/index.html
    http://tclbitprint.sourceforge.net/tkpath/cairo/index.html
    Homepage:
	http://sourceforge.net/projects/tclbitprint

    tclAppleHelp 1.1
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...
    a critcl wrapper for Apple Carbon Help API functions, is now available.
    WHAT IS TCLAPPLEHELP?
    tclAppleHelp allows you to use Apple's built-in help system for display
    and searching of your HTML user documentation See
        http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Reference...
    for the discussion of the Carbon Help API, and 

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Conceptua... 
    for discussion of how to prepare and deploy user documentation in the
    Apple Help format. Homepage:
	http://tk-components.sourceforge.net/tclapplehelp/index.html

    Ann Getleft 1.2b2
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...
    Getleft is a web site grabber written in Tcl/Tk, given an URL
    it will download the whole site or, at least, the part of it
    that fits the options given by the user.
    Homepage:
	http://personal.iddeo.es/andresgarci/getleft/english/
    Downloads:
	http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/getleft/english/dow...

    ANNOUNCE: TclTalk 0.3.5.2
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...
    TclTalk has reached 0.3.5.2 and should now run on both, Tcl/Tk 8.4 and
    8.5. There's still a lot to do with the syntax emphasizer, but one can
    allready create little programs like the contained
    "wifimeter" (package require wifimeter), which works on Linux using iwconfig.
    Homepage:
	http://tcltalk.ath.cx


ORBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl
    [CfP] Dynamic Languages Symposium 2007
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...
    
    (OT) Hierarchical State Machines
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...

    Expect to monitor multiple processes
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...

    PNG data generated by TkImg1.3
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...
    subtle differences in generated files from TkImg, Gimp, IE, MS-Office

    Tk & Tile on Vista
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...

    passing a custom function for lsearch
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...

TIPX: new, used and discarded Tips
    TIP 305 by David Gravereaux : ANSI Escape Sequence Support for Windows's
    Console Channel Driver
	http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/305.html
	State has changed from Draft to Withdrawn

OOTW: Orphan of the week or questions nobody answered yet:
    Tk and Credential Manager software
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...

PMAG: Tcl in printed and other Media:
    Aspect oriented Programming:
	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect-oriented_programming
    could this interest anyone?


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his Wiki report, soon to complete its fifth year:
  An anthropologist could probably learn a lot from the
  evolution of major topics on the Wiki from week to week, 
  but to your humble chronicler it seems a chaotic 
  system, unpredictable but very interesting.
  
  One way or another way
  - What does it mean that there is no distinction between
    data and code in Tcl? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17869>
  
  - Right, yet another way to use a functional programming
    style - <http;//wiki.tcl.tk/17879>
  
  - Just because crystals are so beautiful: an application
    to visualise the source of that beauty at the microscopic
    level - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17572>
  
  - Differences between platforms remain a source of 
    problems. Know thy environment and that of others:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1110>
  
  IDE or not IDE
  - If you are used to an integrated development environment,
    you may be surprised that Tcl does not come with one ...
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3549>
  
  - ... but with many! Here is an example for OSX, with 
    smooth looking windows - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15257>
  
  Humans and computers
  - The ideas for projects in the Google summer school
    keep coming. You only need to bring some time now:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17872>
  
  - Of databases, searching and the Wiki ... or is it
    more of a personal thing? Anyway bits and pieces
    of the discussion are worth reading -
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17841>
  

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/

We're working on more useful archives of past installments.  In the
meantime, an alternative is
  http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL&...

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