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This week's Tcl-URL
QOTW: "We have memory leaks in our C++ based extensions, and the Solaris and Linux memory management methods can vary wildly... but Tcl is as stable and reliable as the U.S. economy... er, how about a '63 chevy with a 283 V8? Yeah, as stable and reliable as a '63 chevy with a 283 V8." --Phil Ehrens, http://groups.google.com/groups?as_umsgid=agn0g9$9a8@gap.cco.caltech.edu "I think the need for OO techniques is greatly reduced by a language with [eval] and [info] and dynamically-sized structures built in. This may be why you see less OO in Tcl than in some of the other languages." -- Darren New, http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3D25CC00.59A28133@san.rr.com "What I like about 'bgexec' is that it handles all the dumb stuff under the hood--so you (the Tcl programmer) don't have to worry about it." George A. Howlett The first 8.4 beta of the Tcl/Tk 8.4 Core has been released at SourceForge. Announcement: http://groups.google.com/groups?as_umsgid=3D29D32C.C5410B87@ActiveState.com Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10894 http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.4.html ActiveTcl binary releases for Windows, Linux, and Solaris: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/ActiveTcl RPMs (actually just spec files to build an RPM): http://groups.google.com/groups?as_umsgid=4244613b.0207072314.2cb207c7@posting.google.com http://jfontain.free.fr/tcltk-8.4b1-1.spec Jeff Hobbs posts the 8.4 release schedule: "8.4b1 was July 5th. 8.4b2 should be August 5th. 8.4.0 should be September 5th." http://groups.google.com/groups?as_umsgid=3D2EFB87.13228CC6@ActiveState.com Registration is now open for the 9th Annual Tcl/Tk conference, to be held September 16-20, in Vancouver, BC, Canada: http://groups.google.com/groups?as_umsgid=3D2C5C3E.DFDA8ABB@ActiveState.com Michael A. Cleverly announces nstcl 1.0, "a Tcl package which reimplements many of the useful APIs and commands from AOLserver and OpenACS, making them available for use in Tcl/Tk applications & scripts [...] Most notable of these is the nstcl-database package, and the 'ns_db' API, which provides a common interface to various different database extensions." http://groups.google.com/groups?as_umsgid=pgpmoose.200207081233.10876@despot.non.net Tom Wilkason announces SnackAmp 2.0b1, a cross platform Tcl/Tk based Mp3, Ogg Vorbis audio/music player, playlister and file manager. Announcement: http://groups.google.com/groups?as_umsgid=OdqX8.59259$%%2.2498874@news2.east.cox.net Home: http://snackamp.sourceforge.net/index.html README: http://snackamp.sourceforge.net/user_manual/readme.html Snack sound engine: http://www.speech.kth.se/snack/ Jean-Luc Fontaine's moodss tool is up to release 16.4: http://groups.google.com/groups?as_umsgid=4244613b.0207072306.3fd4c277@posting.google.com Techniques for building standalone deliverables are discussed in the thread "Compiling or wrapping?". Techniques covered: ProWrap, FreeWrap, Mktclapp, TclKit, scripted documents (recently rechristened "StarKits"), and StarPacks: http://groups.google.com/groups?th=6d20d48a615a784b More on Starkits and Starpacks: "Due to the many terrific contributions and enhancements (most of them in the Tcl core by now) you can now consider deployment of applications built upon Tcl/Tk to be 'solved'. [...] Starkits are very close to becoming a 100% hassle-free deployment technology." http://groups.google.com/groups?as_umsgid=jcw-7969AB.17155811072002@news1.xs4all.nl http://www.equi4.com/starkit/ Thanks to Arjen Markus for his summary of Wiki action: After scanning a long list of changed pages, these are the ones that attracted the Wiki chronicler's attention: Some well-chosen words about GUIs: - A practical guide to fonts can be found at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/451> - A pragmatic guide to popup windows is at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3713> - A programmatic aide for editing Korean characters resides at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3681> - "Embedding Windows applications in Tk frames" begins to answer a long-standing open question <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3702> Extending Tcl may be relatively easy, but these pages discuss the subject in more detail: - Writing Extensions <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1191> is a page that collects references to other pages on the subject. - Here is a new one: making compilers work within scripts, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3687> - Well, with the approach of Tcl 8.4.0, a discussion on how to prepare yourself for more than one version of Tcl may be just what you need, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3708> Quite a lot is known about protecting your source code, start reading all about it at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3698> And for the algorithm addicts: - nstcl aims at unifying the interface to many packages, like AOLserver, OpenACS and sundry databases, have a look at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3666> - Interested in tree structures? e4graph may give you ideas. Follow the branches that stem from <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1410> - An all-Tcl calculator, just to understand the inner workings, by George Staplin, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3709> Everything 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 Larry Virden maintains a comp.lang.tcl FAQ launcher http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-FAQ/ Brent Welch maintains "The Tcl Developer Xchange", a highly organized resource center of documents and software with provisions for individuals to "set up a link to your software and update ... as you release new versions." http://www.tcl-tk.net/resource/ The Xchange sponsor also keeps info to convince your boss Tcl is a good thing http://www.tcl-tk.net/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 Tools maintains a Cookbook of Tcl recipes http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Tcl NeoSoft has a comp.lang.tcl contributed sources archive http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/contributed-software/ Cameron Laird tracks many Tcl/Tk references of interest http://starbase.neosoft.com/~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/ Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here: http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/url.html --in principal. In spring 2001, though, http://www.ddj.com/topics/tclurl/ http://tcl.activestate.com:8004/tclurl/ are more consistently up-to-date. A fourth possibility is http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lang.tcl Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome. To receive a new issue of this posting in e-mail each Monday, ask <claird@neosoft.com> to subscribe. Be sure to mention "Tcl-URL!". -- Dr. Dobb's Journal (http://www.ddj.com) is pleased to participate in and sponsor the "Tcl-URL!" project. (Log in to post comments)
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