Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL!

QOTW: "Throw an eye on these pages of Wiki" -- Pacalou

"Amazing how you sometimes are unable to find the right solution once you've
started going in the wrong direction." -- Schelte Bron


POTW: Tcllib 1.6 by Andreas Kupries and a cast of dozens.  "tcllib is a
Tcl-only library of standard routines for Tcl (no compiling required)."  The
direct link is very long, so here's the c.l.t.a post:
     http://groups.google.com/groups?th=b886a1a6211c3804


     If you have background processing that must occur concurrently
     with other processing (like updating a GUI), you can make it a
     separate process, a separate thread in the same process, or
     break it into chunks small enough to process in the event loop
     without being noticed:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=a8b457afd442c936

     Getting good-looking default fonts on multiple platforms.  Bryan
     Oakley offers a recipe with tasty bigger/smaller font size control
     built in!
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=eb0a61cad2c8464f

     Options for displaying a LARGE dataset (on the order of
     millions of items) in tabular form:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=aefd059b765f5635

     Linux tclkit needs to be readable as well as executable:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=c3a1a9eefb9e07a6

     Starkits do magic whereby the kit is replaced by a virtual
     directory, like mounting a unix filesystem:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=f4cab2bc085bd402

     Can Tcl keep up with a 115Kbaud serial stream?
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=1885c84cadfd95a6

Thanks to Arjen Markus for his summary of Wiki activity:
  Just back from the FOSDEM meeting in Brussels, your chronicler 
  discovered that even more Tcl programming was going on on the Wiki.
  Oh well, time for a summary.
  
  The Zen, Tao and what not of Tcl programming:
  - What should come first: elegant solutions or high-performance solutions?
    Whichever you choose, you can make pretty pictures from the numbers!
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9585>
  
  - Here is a benchmark for OO extensions in Tcl: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10972>
  
  - A lot of discussion in the newsgroup, but also on the Wiki about 
    the merits of integer range generators, with unexpected solutions:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10795>
  
  - And if you really want to find out about the Zen of Tcl, perhaps
    the demonstration by Reinhard Max at FOSDEM is the best illustration:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10968>
  
  Trees and ThreeD things
  - An interface to tDOM via Tcllib's tree structure - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3674>
  
  - What if you want to disable a widget and its children and its 
    grandchildren and ...? You simply look up this page: 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10900>
  
  - An unguided tour of St. John's chapel at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10969>
    (Which does make your chronicler think: what is a good way for 
    doing 3D images?)
  
  Varia
  - Cryptography in Tcl: there are lots of algorithms out there and
    quite a few can done via Tcl. Here is the DES algorithm
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8196> and the MD4 algorithm <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8777>
    (as they are part of Tcllib, these pages can give you some background and
    examples)
  
  - Expand your local Wiki with a history feature - see what was changed 
    - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10949>


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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