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From: Cameron Laird
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 05:08:05 GMT
Group(s): comp.lang.tcl
Subject: Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Aug 19)


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/

Previous - (U)se the (R)esource, (L)uke! - messages are listed here:
http://www.ddj.com/topics/tclurl/
An alternative is
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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