Tcl-URL! - 2000/02/08

by Don Porter - DejaNews: [1]

• Only one week until Tcl2K! February 14-18, Austin TX http://www.usenix.org/events/tcl2k/
• Scott Redman says what he can about "What's hot at Scriptics?" (see DN581367703)
• tclhttpd 2.3.7 replaces badly broken release 2.3.6 Restores proper Base64 decoding with 8.1+ releases of Tcl http://www.scriptics.com/products/tclhttpd/
• mod_dtcl 0.7.3, an Apache module providing server parsed Tcl (see DN579290139) http://comanche.com.dtu.dk/dave/
• Agentk 1.0b4, a Tk extension providing an animation toolkit (see DN580594971) http://www.cc.gatech.edu/grads/m/Scott.McCrickard/agentk/
• New releases of Wcb 2.1 and Mentry 1.1 (see DN581955744) (see DN581955743) http://www.nemethi.de/
• New release of the Modular OO Dynamic SpreadSheet: moodss 10.2 (see DN582292896) http://jfontain.free.fr/
• Tcl/SMAPI 1.0 from IBM provides Tcl commands to interact with the ViaVoice speech recognition engine through SMAPI. http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/tclsmapi/
• The Nebula Device from Radon Labs is a game engine which uses Tcl/Tk http://www.radonlabs.de/
• Gotchas when callbacks servicing events re-enter the event loop (thread [2]) (thread [3])
• Use of bindtags to "subclass" the bindings of a Tk widget (thread [4])
• "do ... while" is a good example of creating custom control flow commands in Tcl (thread [5])
• Using Tcl on a 64-bit machine? Help the Tcl developers with their cross-platform testing (see DN582113082)
• A long and wide-ranging thread covering several issues about how Tcl packages in a "standard library" should behave so they play well together and with a net-aware package command. (see DN580376693) http://pitch.nist.gov/nics/ http://www.cogent.net/%7Eduquette/tcl/namespaces.html (see DN580555863)

Quote of the week nominees "The best way to profile Tcl code is to write it and try it." - Bob Techentin <techentin.robert@mayo.edu> "TEA makefiles are cross-platform, as long as your platform is GNU." - David Cuthbert <dacut@kanga.org> "A centralized registry is a great idea. Everybody should have one." - David Cuthbert <dacut@kanga.org>