Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL!

QOTW: "The Expect book has a whole chapter on the trap command if you're
interested in a lot of stuff you'd be better off not knowing :-P" -- Don Libes

"I never really got to grips with regexp." -- Mark G. Saye


POTW: TclXML 3.0 Release Candidate 1 by Steve Ball:  "The TclXML project is
a collection of tools and libraries for handling XML documents with the Tcl
scripting language.  It has Tcl, C based XML parsers, DOM interfaces and XSLT."
     http://tclxml.sourceforge.net/


     "exec" doesn't have to be hard.  If <command> works from the
     command line, try "exec <command>"; chances are, you won't
     have to modify <command> in obscure ways:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=e1f8b55e4f47e47d

     Parsing the host and port from a URL is discussed in the rather
     generically named "Getting text from string" thread:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=cc3d93d6c075226f

     Half-pipes: not just for skateboarders anymore!  They're also
     for Tcl geeks who need to sort using an external process:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=f944a8d9440d3469

     Reining in an overzealous tcltest suite:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=59f41e5c9beeeedf

     Finding out whether a modifier key is pressed or not.  As usual,
     there are other answers to the *real* question at hand:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=9feebb8666763b94

     What to do if your idea of what a "word" is doesn't match Tcl's
     is discussed in "help with regsub..." (start with msg 4):
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=c8812c42bfb7ae75

     Jakob Nielsen provides good background reading on "usability",
     certainly a rubric important to Tcl developers:
	 http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030825.html

     Growing pains for panedwindows:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=595f5edcdd3fb4f5

     Another discussion of "multi-dimensional arrays", and a good
     example of "list of lists" indexing in 8.4 and later.
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=e1d0c78d6500dddd


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his summary of recent Wiki activity:
  It has been a slow week on the Wiki - the time of year, probably. But there
  are a few gems to be found anyway.
  
  Technical tips and tricks
  - Do you need to know if a new file has been added to a directory or
    an existing file has been changed? Well, the details are OS-dependent,
    but here is a page that will help out: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9654>
  
  - Brighten a gray image - insert a background colour with 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/96666>
  
  - The looks of Tk continue to be discussed. With a few nice looking pictures
    (but your chronicler has a blind spot for some things): 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9485>
  
  - tDOM is not only useful for XML documents, but here is a way to use
    it to check generated HTML as well <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9645>
  
  - Here is a parser for Tcl code that makes further code analysis real 
    easy - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9649>
  
  Potpourri of other pages
  - Here you go, a nice little tutorial for tDOM - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8984>
  
  - Pondering over an application server: what it is and how to create one
    ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2407>
  
  - And do the pondering whilst listening to a bit of TclMusic - 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3977>


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

    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

    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

    Cameron Laird tracks several Tcl/Tk references of interest
        http://phaseit.net/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/

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