Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (May 17)

QOTW:  "... maybe I should have started with the manual, not writing some
random stuff and asking obvious questions ..." - olegfink, in contemplation
of his programming career


    Can TclApp wrap a binary ("impure") package?  Yes:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...

    wish vs. tclsh *is* subtle.  There's a reason to maintain
    both:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...

    Alexandre, Donal, et al. provide Good practice in refcount-think:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his mostly-weekly Wiki reports:
  Spring should be such a lovely time of year ... Right now, when your
  Wiki chronicler looks out of the window, it might as well have been
  a window on the southern hemisphere. Anyway, the summary!
  
  Graphical considerations
  - Can any one help out with the refactoring of BLT? New stuff is
    waiting, it appears. Check out <http://wiki.tcl.tk/24533>
  
  - With just one line of code added, this demo of the two main methods
    to traverse a graph works. If it does not demonstrate breadth-first
    and depth-first search in all clarity, it is at least a beautiful little
    demo - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/22389>
  
  - Just as nice is this page on drawing dice - especially clear with
    the added screenshot - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17103>
  
  - Antialiasing algorithms are fine, but perhaps you can achieve the
    same effect in a different way. Here is an experiment:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9776>
  
  - Adding tooltips to the ttk treeview widget is just a light exercise
    once you have taken the code from this page - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/24636>
  
  Beyond the basics
  - Sometimes a useful piece of software can be created with just a
    few lines of code. This proxy server is an example -
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8833>
  
  - An update on the development of the ATWF web framework -
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/25821>
  
  - Work around a nasty GUI bug or quirk - need get rid of left-over events?
    Here is how: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11284>
  
  - Threads can lead to an overwhelmingly complex program, even though they
    are useful from time to time. Try this message queue for safety:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17652>
  

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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