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QOTW:  "... and we've a tradition of global-scope callbacks anyway." - Donal
K. Fellows


    Zbigniew raises a subtle question about cross-platform behavior
    of labels with focus; Bryan Oakley provides a work-around apt
    for calendar display, for instance:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...

    Thank Neil Madden for generators, and Donal for his remarks on
    use of [yield]:
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...

    Can one deliver the same script to tclsh and wish?  Should one?
	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_threa...


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his weekly summary of Wiki activity:
  Here are a few pages again that caught your chronicler's eye.
  - You can deal with events without relying on Tk to generate them.
    An older page revisited: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/8235>
  
  - XML may be a useful format, validating XML files is not a simple
    matter, but partial solutions exist: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/12529>
  
  - Using XML not to store data, but code, your chronicler worked
    out an idea. Now let us see if it turns out useful.
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/24358> contains a basic implementation.
  
  - Writing PDF files directly with Tcl is possible via the pdf4tcl
    package. Check out the new version at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/24350>
  
  - An intriguing question: finding a package's location without
    actually loading it - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/17394>
  
  - Maps come in many varieties, here is a project for dealing
    with maps the GIS way - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/23437>
  
  - Here is another type of map: the roadmap to the next (minor)
    version of Tcl/Tk: <http://wiki.tcl.tk/20966>
  
  - And should all else fail, get your French dictionary and
    read how to build a debugger for Tcl - <http://wfr.tcl.tk/1766>
  

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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