Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL!
[Posted December 6, 2006 by cook]
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| Uwe Klein <tcl-url-AT-phaseit.net> |
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| Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Dec 6) |
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| Wed, 06 Dec 2006 22:21:19 +0000 |
QOTW:
The choice of when or if to use quotes, and what type of quotes, is
entirely up to the programmer, generally dictated by context. I'm
convinced that once someone fully understands that single fact, all
their Tcl quoting problems will vanish forever. Bryan Oakley on c.l.t
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/6cf6a8b4...
In Naperville, the most fascinating presentation for me was stever's
about Whim. Richard Suchenwirth
POTW:
ANNOUNCE: TkTreeCtrl 2.2 by Tim Baker
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...
TkTreeCtrl is a flexible listbox widget for Tk written in C.
Project homepage:
http://tktreectrl.sourceforge.net/
ChangeLog:
http://tktreectrl.sourceforge.net/What%27s%20New%20in%20T...
Source and Win32 binary downloads:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=69413
ANNOUCE: ActiveTcl 8.4.14.0 and 8.5.0.0b6 now available
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...
ActiveState is pleased to announce the release of ActiveTcl 8.4.14.0
and 8.5.0.0 Beta 6, the quality-assured distribution of Tcl, available
for AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and Windows.
New in ActiveTcl 8.4.14.0:
* Mac OS X distribution is now a Universal binary
* Tcl/Tk core updated to 8.4.14
* Teacup client of the TEApot repository system added
* Updated:
- OraTcl 4.4
- Sqlite 3.3.8
- Tcllib 1.9
- Tile 0.7.8
- Tklib 0.4.1
- XOTcl 1.5.3
- Bwidget 1.8
- Thread 2.6.5 (Windows, OS X only)
New in ActiveTcl 8.5.0.0 Beta 6:
* Mac OS X distribution is now a Universal binary
* Tcl/Tk core updated to 8.5a5
* Teacup client of the TEApot repository system added
To download ActiveTcl 8.4.14.0, click here:
http://www.ActiveState.com/ActiveTcl/download
For more information or to download the 8.5 beta, click here:
http://www.ActiveState.com/ActiveTcl
ANNOUNCE: ActiveState GUI Builder released open source
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...
I am pleased to announce that ActiveState is releasing the GUI Builder
as open source software.
The GUI Builder is a component of our Komodo IDE that we are unbundling
as of the Komodo 4.0 release. While we don't have the time to improve
it, we hate to see useful software be locked up, so we decided to make
it available for others to improve upon. Enjoy!
GUI Builder is a derivative of the old SpecTcl project, so it seemed
right to place the new version back in its original home:
Home page:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/spectcl/
SVN:
http://spectcl.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/spectcl/trunk/g...
SVN checkout:
svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/spectcl/trunk/guib guib
ORBI: or what happened on comp.lang.tcl
TCL/PHP/XML problem: I need to convert an XML file into a TCL list
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...
All the kings horses all the kings men can't ... what actually?
One may view this thread and some companions as a lesson in humility
or an example of "language shear" or whatever. something to gain for
everyone.
Compared to other scripting languages
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...
TEA 3 -- HOWTO?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...
transparency
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...
http://wiki.tcl.tk/17308
Time Piece as a Playground of the mind
Error: channel "stdout" wasn't opened for writing when
"exec >&@stdout printenv"
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...
TIPX: new, used and discarded Tips
Rejected Tips:
266 by Kristoffer Lawson : Numbers are Commands
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/266.html
TIP 273 by Carsten Gosvig : Add Tcl_Expr... Support to Tcl_Get... Functions
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/273.html
TIP 289 by Peter Spjuth : Revision of [lrepeat] Argument Order
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/289.html
Ascended Candidates:
TIP 280 by Andreas Kupries : Add Full Stack Trace Capability With
Location Introspection
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/280.html
Vote: Done,State has changed from Draft to Final
TIP 287 by Michael A. Cleverly : Add a Commands for Determining Size
of Buffered Data
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/287.html
Vote: Done,State has changed from Draft to Final
TIP 298 by Don Porter : Revise Shared Value Rules for
Tcl_GetBignumAndClearObj
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/298.html
Vote: Done,State has changed from Draft to Final
TIP 299 by Kevin B. Kenny : Add isqrt() Math Function
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/299.html
Vote: Done,State has changed from Draft to Final
TIP 300 by Kevin B. Kenny : Examine Glyph Substitution in the 'font actual' Command
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/300.html
Vote: Done,State has changed from Draft to Final
TIP 267 by Nathan Bell : Allow 'exec' to Ignore Stderr
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/267.html
Vote: Done,State has changed from Draft to Accepted
TIP 286 by Schelte Bron : Add 'xposition' Command to Menu Widgets
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/286.html
Vote: Done,State has changed from Draft to Accepted
Currently voted on:
TIP 291 by Steve Landers : Add the 'platform' Package to Tcl
http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/291.html
Vote: In progress
OOTW: Orphan of the week or questions nobody answered yet:
DDE package and the handler callback
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/t...
ATTC: At the Core:
[TCLCORE] TIP #225: Arithmetic Series with Optimized Space Complexity
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=31...
This turned into an interesting discourse on type
handling/conversion/morphing
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
comp.lang.tcl is a crucial resource for Tcl practitioners.
An interesting perspective on its traffic appears at
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/about
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
There's also a high-quality Wikibook on Tcl:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Tcl
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
deli.cio.us presents an intriguing approach to reference commentary.
It already aggregates quite a bit of Tcl intelligence.
http://del.icio.us/tag/tcl
Cameron Laird tracks several Tcl/Tk references of interest (but
needs to validate many of the links).
http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.tcl/
Years ago, Cetus Links maintained a Tcl/Tk page with verified links
http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html
"Yahoo! Groups" archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts--even
though clta itself is dormant.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/
We're working on more useful archives of past installments. In the
meantime, an alternative is
http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL&...
Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome.
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