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QOTW: "[Using a -command helper procedure] works like a dream even when the
things you're passing around get *obscenely* complex." -- Donal K. Fellows

"I'm switching back and forth between JavaScript (where everything is global
if you don't say 'var') and Tcl (where everything is local if you don't say
'global'"
     -- Chris Nelson


POTW: TKproE 1.0 by Dennis LaBelle.  "TKproE is an integrated program
development environment for the TCL/TK scripting language."  "TKproE was
designed as a replacement for the XF application. This latter application
was originally developed by Sven Delmas over a decade ago."  "However, much
has happened to the TCL/TK language since the early 1990s. TCL/TK has a
large number of new features that didn't exist at the time XF was first
created. Eventually, I felt that a brand new design was better than trying
to modify the existing XF code."
     http://tkproe.sourceforge.net


     Using [socket -async] to timeout connection attempts:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=9ca15197a616457a

     Aric Bills answers a question about all::those::colons with a
     simple walkthrough of namespaces:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=f89c1364ec9129bd

     Converting an array of image tiles into one larger image:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=e4eddd79a6e49479

     You unset an array, but some elements come back.  Why?
     Maybe because they have traces, or are -textvariables:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=c0d162ddab498946

     Two hints for pasting text with <Control-v>: use <<Paste>>
     instead, and don't forget the [break].
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=4ed86c6e7e6e67ac

     The polynymous SM Ryan shows how to [exec] grep to
     search for a variable term:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=e9dbb935a67485d8

Thanks to Arjen Markus for his summary of Wiki activity:
  For those of you, dear readers, interested in the French Wiki, here are
  a couple pages your chronicler selected:
  - A quick conversion of HTML files to something compatible to the Wiki
    - <http://wfr.tcl.tk/48>
  
  - A tutorial on Tkcon, with illustrations, <http://wfr.tcl.tk/282>
  
  - Perhaps this could be the answer to newbies who want an IDE:
    <http://wfr.tcl.tk/222>
  
  - For the mathematically inclined, the many ways the number "pi" can
    be computed with sidetracks to Riemann's zeta function -
    <http://wfr.tcl.tk/565>
  
  - Several pages on packages such as BWidget and Tcllib contain links to
    ready-made starkits - <http://wfr.tcl.tk/569> for instance.
  
  And then of course the English-spoken/written Wiki, which has some questions
  that might be answered by some of the above French pages ...
  - Suppose you are used to an IDE and then want to use Tcl/Tk? 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3599> deals with this long-standing issue.
  
  - What if you do not want an IDE, but simply want a quick-and-dirty
    debugger without bells and whistles? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11850>
    might be your solution.
  
  - BWidget is a wonderful package and all done in plain Tcl. But it could
    use an example or two of how to actually use it. Please, contribute to
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1091>.
  
  - In need of assembly programming? See what Tcl can do for you:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11765>
  
  - A transparant method for doing OO in Tcl explained - 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11841>
  
  - In want of a completely opaque programming language? Yes, the 
    Wiki will guide you there too: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/11877> tells
    the tale of such a language.
  
  
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

    The Eleventh Mostly-Annual Tcl Conference will be this October.
	http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2004/

    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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