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QOTW:  "Whenever I see an impossible error I immediately suspect
[trace]." - Donald Arseneau


    Toplevels canNOT be counted on to appear first on top of the
    stacking pile, even though it generally happens that way with
    most Linux window managers.  Tk has enough controls to get 
    things where you need them, though:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...

    Close-to-the-silicon procedural coders often think of big action
    choices in terms of if-else tables.  Object orientation promotes
    emphasis on dispatch, overloading, and sometimes more abstruse
    indirections.  EIAS for us, though, and simple named dispatch and
    variable switch tables are equally easy:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...

    A handy desktop calculator is one line--any one of several
    single lines--away in Tcl:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his (mostly) weekly summary of Wiki action:
  With the days getting shorter again on the northern hemisphere 
  (and the reverse on the southern one) let's take a look at the Wiki ...
  
  Wiki news and things online 
  - Off-line use of the Wiki is easy with wubwikit.kit:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20412> (and <http://wiki.tcl.tk/18028>
    for more background information)
  
  - Recently a comments feature was added to the Wiki, so you can 
    see some entries like: dkf - 2009-06-23 18:17:39, followed 
    by text. This one appears on a page concerning REST:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/3513>
  
  - Tcl can be implemented in JavaScript, so that no extra browser
    plugin is required ... Just a bit of patience: 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20339>
  
  Commands and what not
  - With the recent action by Donal Fellows to exhibit the hidden
    treasures of TclX one in particular drew your chronicler's 
    attention: a command to scan a file and have actions taken
    based on its contents - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2047>.
  
  - A nice little demonstration of the ttk::style command -
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/23657>
  
  - By the end of this summer, there will be a whole new set
    of commands for examining and manipulating graphs (in the
    sense of nodes and vertices) - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/23203>
    monitors the progress.
  
  - Graphs of the other kind are easy to manipulate too -
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20353>
  
  Some oddities
  - The nice little 3D mine sweeper game seems to have disappeared
    from sight: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14676>
  
  - A problem with binding variables in using Oratcl ...
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/23664>
  
  - A program running in the background seems to block [exec]
    anyway ... A peculiar thing in Windows? <http://wiki.tcl.tk/12793>
  

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/

    Tcl Developer Xchange sponsor, ActiveState, keeps info to 
    onvince 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.  Dave 
Williams generously is building up
    http://www.bacomatic.org/~dw/comp/tclurl/index.htm
and of course Google gives us
  http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&as_q=+Tcl-URL&...

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