[Tcl-announce] Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Sep 10)
by Cameron Laird other posts by this author
Sep 10 2009 8:20AM messages near this date
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[Tcl-announce] ActiveState Tcl Dev Kit 5.1 Released
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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_thread/thread/78b14d91f0aabda8/
Thank Neil Madden for generators, and Donal for his remarks on
use of [yield]:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/fa01beeb5eec1624/
Can one deliver the same script to tclsh and wish? Should one?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/e9b5645a38fb1c3/
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&as_ugroup=comp.lang.tcl
Suggestions/corrections for next week's posting are always welcome.
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