Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links

QOTW:  "... it's turned out that whenever we expose a data structure (with
the possible exception of ones that exist only to hold multiple return
values from a function), we come to regret it.  Tcl_StatBuf is a case in
point." - Kevin Kenny


    TkDND now supports the Mac:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=...
        
    Woof! 0.4 and TWAPI 2.2.3 are available:
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki activity:
  The Wiki is picking up speed again after a couple of relaxed weeks.
  And so is your chronicler. To make up for the gap, I have looked at
  the past couple of weeks, not just last week. Let the summary begin!
  
  Graphical things
  - This month's 3D demo concerns quaternions and Julia sets. If you
    do not know what these are, you may still enjoy the beautiful 
    picture. <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17771> for your delight.
  
  - Creating computer animations is a simple task nowadays, especially
    if you have a decent graphics card and tools to go with it. Here 
    is an application of such tools: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/16879>
  
  GUI things
  - Make your browser aware of the Wiki ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/391> 
    discusses searching and bookmarking, but if you use Firefox, you
    can now get a Tclers' Wiki search bar at the cost of a mere few
    clicks.
  
  - Menubars are among the more complicated widgets, as they are
    composed of several others. Here is a nice demonstration of
    what can be done with the menubar package from Tklib:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/25231>
  
  - Perhaps you simply want fast access to any number of programs
    ... In that case, have a look at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/21254>
  
  Potpourri
  - Funny how old pages wither away from your own memory, but
    then all of a sudden, here they are! Here is one of mine
    I completely forgot about: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/15518>
    describes a small package for searching and modifying
    text files.
  
  - This is more recent work: a wrapper (or the start of
    one) for the famous LAPACK library. <http://wiki.tcl.tk/25451>
  
  - Let us conclude with another wrapper. This one makes it easy
    to send messages via I2P (or SAM): <http://wiki.tcl.tk/25468>
    

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/

    Tcl Developer Xchange sponsor, ActiveState, 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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