Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Dec 22)

QOTW:  "[A]ny grab sucks, Tk grab sucks cross-platform." - Steve Landers
    http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/ba752719...


    Kevin Walzer's magic show pulls a Cocoa-like Unified Toolbar out
    of the MacOs hat:
	http://www.codebykevin.com/tk-unified-latest.png

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&....

    The Tkinter mailing list has been particularly active lately,
    generating more working code examples than are readily summarized.
    Many of them apply to Tk working with base languages other than
    Python:
	http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tkinter-discuss/2010-Dec...
	http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tkinter-discuss/2010-Dec...
	http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tkinter-discuss/2010-Dec...
	http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tkinter-discuss/2010-Dec...
        http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tkinter-discuss/2010-Dec...
	http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tkinter-discuss/2010-Dec...


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his mostly-weekly Wiki reports:
  With most of Europe under an unusually early layer of snow,
  the end of the year nearing fast, there is every reason to 
  look at the Wiki again ...
  
  - Using Jim - the small foot-print reimplementation of Tcl - as
    an alternative to autoconf? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/27197> for 
    a discussion
  
  - While there is a lot to say about BLT, it is still a powerful
    tool for, among others, plotting data. And it is easily 
    combined with, say, TclODBC - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/27587>
  
  - A fix to Snack reported. Recording radio broadcasts is
    a jiffy with this: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8583>
  
  - The Wiki page on this CAD package leads to a rather 
    pretty website. Check it out: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17805>
  
  - Tcl has always been good at supporting very different
    programming styles. Be they highly recursive parsers
    such as the one described on <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14295>
    or stream-oriented programming as <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3356>.
  
  - Inter-process communication in various guises:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/27375> details the set-up of the 
    Wibble web server and <http://wiki.tcl.tk/27488>
    is dedicated to communication via the dbus library.
  
  - Your humble chronicler follows very different roads through
    the landscape of Tcl's possibilities with a simple solver
    for certain partial differential equations - See 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/27564>.


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://code.activestate.com/recipes/langs/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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