Tcl-URL! - 2000/02/01

by Jeffrey Hobbs - DejaNews: [1]

• Tcl2K: one final announcement was made. The best opportunity to get your hands on the pulse of the developer community will be there, don't miss out! February 14-18, Austin TX http://www.usenix.org/events/tcl2k/
• Expand v1.3, a macro expander for file processing is available (see DN577258629) http://www.cogent.net/~duquette/expand/
• tkbib 1.0 is a simple Tk app for editing LaTeX bib files (see DN577258630) http://vlsicad.cs.binghamton.edu/~pmadden/tkbib/
• Hobbs is looking for input on what users think are the most beneficial changes to Tcl in the last 18 months, and what should be the big focuses of the future "POLL" (thread [2])
• AlphaTk version 7.3b2, a programmer's text editor based on Alpha is announced (see DN577521879) ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/pub/alpha/tcl/alphatk/
• How accurate can your timing be in Tcl? (thread [3])
• Gravereaux posts simple C code that would return a list of values to Tcl (using Tcl objects) (see DN577060334)
• Hobbs posts some code to help with composing digraph (accented) characters through a user-definable mechanism (see DN577495674)
• A helpful post for dealing with the option database comes from Miner (see DN577901267)
• Looking for Tcl/Tk on IBM OS/390 Unix? (see DN578251269) ftp://www.adabas.com/special/tcl-port-os390/
• Trying to handle animated GIFs? See this thread with code samples (thread [4])
• Fellows hints at how to make a toplevel appear in a specific workspace when using CDE (see DN578270801)
• Ferrieux tells us how to handle a literal "|" in an exec, as well as dealing with those pipelines that given errant return values (see DN578224885)
• Kirsch releases assorted scripting goodies for Tcl (see DN578056441) http://wsd.iitb.fhg.de/~kir/agfthome/
• XBIT reaches v2.3, adding TWAIN support and more to an already extension image acquisition, processing and presentation package http://www.geocities.com/~chengye/soft.html