Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links

QOTW:  "[J]ust use white." - Joe English, asked about sophisticated 
effects for the background color of ttk::entry or themed file dialogs

"... [Y]ou don't get much *less* efficient than a deadlocked program." - Donal
K. Fellows
    http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/39c567d5...


    Brighten a color?  Don Porter, Frank Ranner, and Keith Vetter
    nicely illustrate how diverse different correct answers can be:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...

Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki action:
  Brace yourself for a few computationally intensive pages ...
  
  Not so basic user-interface elements
  - The HTML viewer is a nice and powerful web browser - hiding 
    under the inconspicuous name "hv3" it actually renders HTML
    very very well - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17697>
  
  - In need of a calendar (widget)? Try this one:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13497>
  
  Do the best you can
  - Suppose you stored copies of your data in different places, 
    how to make sure you get the original data back?
    All that is required is a bit of magic, a bit of Galois theory,
    and eh presto: <http:/wiki.tcl.tk/20767> for your pleasure.
  
  - Such a pity if your computer is busy with all these computations
    and you have to wait such a long time, whereas there are plenty
    of machines that could help out ... <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20751>
  
  - If you need a bit more security and can not use safe interpreters
    for whatever reason, this virtual file system might be a solution:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/13318>
  
  - Even software needs a home ... if you are looking for a place to
    put your software for everyone to find, why not check this page:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20740>
  
  - Preprocessing your code can be both fun and useful, for instance:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20759> bends Tcl's syntax rules a bit and
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20756> massages C header files for further
    processing.
  

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

    "La Gazette du Técleux" is an important monthly publication.
	http://wfr.tcl.tk/1159

    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&...

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