Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Jun 20)

QOTW:  "The advent of Stubs has made a *huge* difference for me."  Joe English


    What *system* should Tcl have for its documentation?  The right
    answer's a subtle and involved one.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=ebc7614dbc72bdc7

    Would a "stubby" BLT make a difference?  Yes, and George has it
    on the list, but other improvements come first.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=8eb26559770ff4c7

    Christian Tismer's making serious progress with a Stackless Tkinter.
    Along with its interest for Python GUI coders, this work illuminates
    Tcl design principles.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=d42aa369919221e9
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=9874e26b2275a38e

    George A. Howlett details use of "element bind" to yield a
    sophisticated effect with BLT barcharts.  Similar techniques
    apply in "tooltipping", pure-Tk canvas intelligence, and elsewhere.
	http://groups.google.com/groups?th=6dee0407f9575642

This week in Wikistan:
    The Wiki software has been renewed.  Read about its features in
         http://wiki.tcl.tk/0
    Good use of the category keywords is described in 
         http://wiki.tcl.tk/2208
    - they can do more than is first apparent.

    Little teasers, these braintwisters 
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/727

    Setting up web applications is the subject of several (new)
    pages:
    - REpresentational State Transfer 
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/3513
    - A review of Interactive Web applications 
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/131
    - All you need to know to get started with a web server
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/954
    
    There is also a page on expert systems: TclCLIPS provides a Tcl
    interface to the CLIPS programming system
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/3510>. 
    
    For all of you who are missing one or two things in the basic
    collection of commands, [lvarpop] 
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/1965
    and accompanying commands in TclX are described 
    
    And now for some graphical stuff:
    - Resize controls are discussed 
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/2988
    - And the really nice thing that appeared on the Wiki this week is:
      functional imaging
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/3523
    

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.net/resource/
    The Xchange sponsor also keeps info to convince your boss Tcl
    is a good thing
        http://www.tcl-tk.net/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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