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QOTW: "I think that Tk is an excellent GUI development tool that has the
BIG benefit of being everywhere." -- Iain B. Findleton

"I never cease to be amazed with the power and simplicity of [Tcl's]
layout managers." -- Bryan Oakley


POTW: Ceptcl 0.3 by Stuart Cassoff.  "[Communications EndPoints for Tcl] is
a Tcl extension which provides a variety of new socket types and greater
control over socket options . . .  Ceptcl is designed to be backwards
compatible with existing Tcl socket based applications. The cep command
works exactly like the Tcl socket command; changing 'socket' to 'cep' inside
a Tcl program should be all that is required to switch regular Tcl sockets
to Ceptcl ceps."
     http://www.fivetones.net/software/


     The question is simple: how to specify a font to be used for
     every widget?  The answer is simple, too (option add *font),
     but several incidental points are interesting:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=cfbf60f66952870e

     A history lesson on why we bind to <Configure> and not to
     <ResizeRequest> for window resizing:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=afc73e4eae8afa30

     The old array$name($idx) vs. array($name,$idx) choice:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=17b090360aca4f47

     A quite interesting discussion about XAML that covers
     programming in general, Tk in particular, and the holy grail
     of self-describing programs:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=7d3880f8b4ca3aaa

     "Improve UNIX Tk Look and Feel" is now TIP #172:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=5d471ca935c2e1c4

Thanks to Arjen Markus for his summary of Wiki activity:
  For those who are interested in network applications: the recent 
  changes to the Wiki should be a delight! And of course, many pages
  concerning completely differnet subjects got updated as well.
  
  Network items
  - Cisco present their scripting facilities - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11108>
  
  - A golden oldie: Scotty and friends - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/691>
  
  - Secure sockets needed? Try: TLS at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2630>
  
  XML items      
  - Parsing XML is one thing, error checking quite another, as witnessed
    on <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11020>
  
  - But it is fairly easy to use XML for configuration data:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2438>
  
  Graphical items
  - Themes, skins and what not: follow the yellow brick road that starts
    at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11075> so you can appreciate the Tile project.
  
  - Coordinates are just about everything in graphics. And certainly if
    you want to present _geographical_ data. Well, here is a way to do
    them with the Universal Transverse Mercator method - 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11109>
  
  - Inputting characters and symbols that are not right in front of you
    on the keyboard - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1615> tells you about input methods
  
  - Beautiful LCD screens with segments and all - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11092>
  
  Other items
  - Surprised about TIP#173? Here is some background information:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2495>
  
  - Making tar files the Tclkit way: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11084>
  
  - A little enhancement for the profiling module in Tcllib, 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11096>
  

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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