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QOTW: "It is good to know that expertise like yours can be found
     on this newsgroup, when it is needed." -- Andrew Wilford

     "Take your medicine like a good boy." -- Donald Arseneau


POTW: Tkgeomap 2.0 by Gordon.  "[A] set of extensions to the Tcl/Tk
     scripting language for manipulation and display of geographic data."
     http://tkgeomap.sourceforge.net


     You're not alone if you want a way to display postscript on a canvas:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=750b9ec58d760f7

     If you need a "Windows Explorer"-like file browser, there are several
     choices:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=c6ee11e62cd0d08b

     When building a command now, to evaluate later, you have to distinguish
     between what you know now and what you won't know until later.  This
     epic thread shows us how to avoid quoting hell by understanding and
     respecting the quoting, parsing, and evaluation rules:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=ef24f3f569efb6e9

     Mark Roseman has photos from the Tcl conference:
         http://www.markroseman.com/tcl/conf2003.html

     An interesting interaction between canvas coordinates and -anchor:
     Putting the corner at 0 0 is easier than putting the center at w/2 h/2!
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=9d1989829895c191

     Use of a custom -command with lsort is discussed:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=25bfd3e1975c9d5a

     TIP #146: Add Overall Anchoring to the Grid Geometry Manager.  Now, how
     about other overall defaults?  Whenever I use grid, I find myself writing
     the same "-padx 2 -pady 2 -sticky nsew" over and over!
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=d6a21b9f44f2b07f

     "Themes for Tk" is the theme of this opinionated thread:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=cce168d3dafb562e

     Printing "progress indicators" doesn't do much good if they get buffered
     until you're done!  (Hmm.  I've always called them "dancing bears", but
     that doesn't seem to be in the Jargon File.)
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=e4f75aaf09db560b

     Do newbies experience cognitive dissonance when they learn that Tcl
     doesn't have 2-dimensional arrays, then see expressions like foo($a,$b)?
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=b3a9f24b41530ba8

     TIP #148: Correct [list]-Quoting of the '#' Character.
     (The reference to "shimmering" is the first one I've seen in a long time!)
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=c735599f74feba5b

     Rejoice, for a soul is saved from packing hell!
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=5b3009305c7d6bca


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his summary of recent Wiki activity:
  Your chronicler refrains in this summary from including the lively 
  debates on argument expansion and how to make Tk more acceptable. 
  These two are vast subjects and they have spawned a number of 
  Wiki pages. 
  
  Instead, let us have a look at these:
  
  Elements in user-interfaces:
  
  - Analogue widgets are described on page <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9107> - 
    they are available as a nice little package now.
  
  - Two small scripts, just to show what can be done with Tk and listboxes:
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9561> and <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9562> give listboxes
    an alternating colour or a flashing entry.
  
  Games and other applications:
  
  - A sailplane to be flown at your own or with another person -
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9085>
  
  - Building a triangulation network, it is easy enough -
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9598> - if you are a "mental giant" (oops, I could
    not help myself, if you understand what I mean, but then you are probably
    a Dutch-spoken person with the same fondness of "Olivier Bommel")
  
  - Tough problems exist in maths, here is one: evaluating complicated
    logical expressions - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9582>
  
  - Easier to solve and very useful: creating charts at
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9503>
  
  - Logo keeps us occupied, this time a whole new implementation in Tcl.
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9593> gives the details and invites the reader
    to comment!
  
  Finally, Andreas Kupries put together an extensive account of the 
  Tenth Annual Tcl/Tk Conference at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9569>. 
  I wonder if someone can fill in the results of the BOFs he did not
  attend ...


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

    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

    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

    Cameron Laird tracks several Tcl/Tk references of interest
        http://phaseit.net/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/

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