QOTW:  "Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a
UI problem." -- William Dye

"IMO backups aren't the problem ... recovery is." -- Steve Landers


POTW:  TKproE is a sophisticated IDE for, and written in, Tcl/Tk.
    http://tkproe.sourceforge.net


    Learn all about the Tcl 2005 Conference.
        http://tcl.tk/community/tcl2005

    Melissa Schrumpf and Quokka contrast [grid] and [pack] in useful
    detail, while Bryan Oakley succinctly diagnoses common mistakes.
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/996bad729d8dd9b2/

    Kevin Kenny and Quokka idiomatically truncate [text] "accumulators".
        http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/dda9715c5509aa3/

    When tempted to switch on [winfo class $w], Joe English remembers to
    leverage virtual events and class bindings.
         http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/10d9667d9af871cf/
        

Thanks to Arjen Markus for his summary of Wiki activity:
  The usual potpourri of subjects on the Wiki - so let us 
  muse over a few of them ...
  
  Tk-related 
  - A little aid to internationalise option menus: the displayed
    text is also the value of the variable ... But what if
    you want text in French and values in English? 
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14574>  solves this problem.
  
  - Ah, the canvas! With a few bindings you make it act
    very interactively - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14573>  shows
    the basics of Enter and Leave events.
  
  - A file manager in Tcl/Tk with impressive screenshots.
    See for yourself at <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14561> 
  
  Techniques and stuff
  - Locking resources (such as files) so that multiple
    applications can share them properly ... not as easy 
    as it might seem. <http://wiki.tcl.tk/593>  discusses
    this subject.
  
  - Ever ran into strange bugs or quirks or merely 
    unexpected results with regular expressions?
    Here are a few tips - <http://wiki.tcl.tk/1345> 
  
  - Scotty may see a new wave of development ...
    <http://wiki.tcl.tk/14576>  mentions a few of the 
    things that could be done and perhaps will be 
    done.
  

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

    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
        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

    "Yahoo! Groups" archives comp.lang.tcl.announce posts
        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/

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