Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL!

QOTW: "All rules (except for the twelve in the Tcl manpage)
are negotiable." -- Donal K. Fellows

"It's amazing how many times just explaining a problem to
someone else makes the solution blindingly clear."
     -- Stephen Huntley


POTW: OTcl interpreter in Tcl by Marek Malowidzki.
"[W]ritten in pure Tcl ;-)."  "It should be fully compliant with the
'OTcl Tutorial v. 0.96, September 95' except that autoloading is
not yet implemented (there is no otcl_mkIndex)."
     http://groups.google.com/groups?th=7087e3c42692052a
     http://republika.pl/maom_onet/otcl/otcl2.tcl


     Doing what bgexec does, when bgexec isn't there.  A poster
     is writing a process manager in Tcl, and needs to handle the
     output of the processes it runs:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=5a7bed39aed158cb

     The newbie-eluding magic of [binary scan], and several
     other ways of achieving the same thing:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=7f10aa3d31607bc8

     This poster's problem with scrolling 5000 widgets seems to
     be due to size limitations on frames, not number of widgets:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=e69f8850f9319df4
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=a5efd3f12362122e

     if {$inspired} then {writeTclPoetry}:
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=ba3a8a65a2a5cf30

    "The Tk Text Widget" is a magazine article.  Though written
    for newcomers to Tk, it's sufficiently insightful to serve
    readers for a long time.
        http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7357&mode=thread&order=0

     A window exposure bug in Windows XP?
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=7ec50b9106b9324b

     How could I have missed something as useful as the
     -uniform option to [grid rowconfigure]?
         http://groups.google.com/groups?th=e5f6fd44fa4b12b7


Thanks to Arjen Markus for his summary of recent Wiki contributions:
  Gosh, your chronicler wishes he had the time to give all the pages on the
  Wiki the attention they deserve. Luckily, he has no such luck, if you,
  dear reader, can forgive him the oxymoronic pun (and the slightly baroque
  introduction to yet another Wiki summary).
  
  Applets
  - Define yourself a nice recursive curve - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10745>.
    As Richard shows, it is easy!
  
  - Tclets by the dozen, all well-behaved - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10696>
  
  Applications
  - Work on an editor that combines the best of two worlds is on its way,
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10637>
  
  - Another ambitious project is being discussed: a wee little desktop!
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10706>
  
  Articles
  - Did you get anything that is published on Tcl? Add it to the list,
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1016>
  
  - Uncertain about the use of categories on the Wiki? Well, you may be
    in for a nice surprise, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/2208>.
  
  - While you are at it, the category printing has a lot to say about,
    well, printing, <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10705>. Of course you need to
    click on its title to get all the goodies.
  
  Additional items
  - Salvatore added another piece to the puzzle of functional programming:
    how to treat functions as simply values. <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10743>
  
  - Restrict an RSS feed to just those items that have recently been 
    changed - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/9140>. (Hm, that sounds a familiar feature)
  
  - Tame your external processes before they go wild. Here are the beginnings
    of an overview - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/10685>
  

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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