Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links

QOTW:  "I doubt it could get easier than tcl and still be a good
language." - jesperj


    Alexandre illustrates how to move forward in extracting information
    from Windows-based applications and documents with tcom:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/5150ea47...
    ... and, even more conventionally, how to reformat a list of hexa-
    decimal representations:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/e4aa5291...

    Petter Fryklund admirably settles an intensely confused question with
    a brief fragment in Ada (!):
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his (mostly) weekly summary of Wiki action:
  Lots of stuff to present, this week, so here we go.
  
  Looking into the future
  - Where Tcl has 12 rules, Cloverfield presents us with 13. Time
    to compare them: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20643>
  
  - No sign of Tcl 9.0 on the horizon yet, but much more ideas
    are being implemented in Tcl 8.x than you may have thought
    possible: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8550>
  
  - The next Tclers' meeting has been announced. This one is 
    in Europe: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22566>
  
  Expecting the unexpected
  - What do you do when you can not rely on Expect to be present?
    Here is a small program for automating sudo: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8865>
  
  - And this is an implementation of Expect in Java:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22577> with bindings to Jacl and TclBlend
  
  Graphics stuff
  - Visualising data flows - all it takes is the canvas and then
    some: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22564>
  
  - Two little gems from Tklib: crosshair lines and a multipane widget 
    suitable for chat programs. Here are the entries:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22372> and <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20776>
  
  - Manipulate the system tray? That is rather OS-specific. But
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/5972> may be useful for Linux and
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22568> for Mac OSX.
  
  Last but not least
  - A text editor, all done in Tcl: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22431>
  
  - Building Tclkit varieties made easy: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/18416>
  
  - A full-featured web server in C and Tcl: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2090>
  
  - Escaped from Tk's embrace: spline routines - <http://wiki.tcl/22575>
    provides more information


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

    "La Gazette du Técleux" is an important monthly publication.
	http://wfr.tcl.tk/1159

    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.  Dave 
Williams generously is building up
    http://www.bacomatic.org/~dw/comp/tclurl/index.htm
and of course Google gives us
  http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL&...

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