Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Jun 24)

QOTW:  "I found Tcl not so easy to use for generating scripts [as] I thought
in the ... beginning."  Maurice Ulis


As usual, the recently changed or added pages on the Wiki contain 
a wide variety of subjects. Let us attempt to list some useful highlights:

    If ASCII characters are not enough for you, then these two pages may lead 
    you to a richer set:
    - To display or edit Korean text, see 
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/1233
    - msgcat is meant to help out with different natural languages, but 
      to use it with non-ASCII, Anton Kovalenko gives valuable information,
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/3426
    
    A few tips and tricks for widgets:
    - If you need a modal dialog, you better look at the page 
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/3541
      as a few details are involved.
    - Doesn't it happen to you too? You want to monitor the output from
      a program or the contents of a file. Well, for the latter, two solutions 
      on a single page: 
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/3552
      And there is a complete column to be found on the first problem via
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/3543
    
    Helpful information for building applications:
    - fickle is Tcl's answer to lex - just have a look at 
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/3555
    - expect, the well-known Tcl application for automating command-line
      programs (and much more) is the subject of four (and growing) pages, 
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/201
      for expect in general, 
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/3547
      for function keys as seen by expect, 
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/1865
      for automatically creating the scripts,
      and 
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/3548
      for expect on the Windows platforms.
    - interacting with web browsers can be fun, 
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/557
      tells you how.
    - And having fun takes time. Luckily your position on earth does not matter
      any more: convert GPS to UTC and back again with 
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/552
    
    We can not finish without some pretty pictures:
    - An elegant date/time axis, 
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/3551
    - You no longer need to read the news paper for a weather forecast, 
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/3363
      offers a whole ensemble of solutions.
    - And the flat screen is no limit either: virtual 3D presentation becomes
      (almost) real, 
        http://wiki.tcl.tk/2763
    

Everything 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

    Larry Virden maintains a comp.lang.tcl FAQ launcher
        http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-FAQ/

    Brent Welch maintains "The Tcl Developer Xchange", a highly
    organized resource center of documents and software with
    provisions for individuals to "set up a link to your software
    and update ... as you release new versions."
        http://www.tcl-tk.net/resource/
    The Xchange sponsor also keeps info to convince your boss Tcl
    is a good thing
        http://www.tcl-tk.net/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 Tools maintains a Cookbook of Tcl recipes
	http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Tcl

    NeoSoft has a comp.lang.tcl contributed sources archive
        http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/contributed-software/

    Cameron Laird tracks many Tcl/Tk references of interest
        http://starbase.neosoft.com/~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/   

Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here:
  http://purl.org/thecliff/tcl/url.html
--in principal.  In spring 2001, though,
  http://www.ddj.com/topics/tclurl/
  http://tcl.activestate.com:8004/tclurl/
are more consistently up-to-date.  A fourth possibility is                 
  http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL!&as_ugroup=comp.lang.tcl  

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