Tcl-URL! - 1999/11/22

by Jeffrey Hobbs - DejaNews: [1]

• Attend the first Tcl/Tk mini-conference in Europe next June. Here is the first announcement, with a Call for Papers (see DN551592341)
• Ball discusses proposed changes for XML packages for Tcl (see DN548625301)
• Fontaine, the RPM maker, does it to BLT 2.4m http://jfontain.free.fr/blt-2.4m-1.i386.rpm
• For TkTable users, a Tk8.2 compatible binary of v2.5 for Windows is now in the archive: http://www.purl.org/net/hobbs/tcl/capp/
• Huang discusses the nuances of TCOM (COM extension to Tcl), and how to iterate over collections (see DN549549392)
• A good example of accessing ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) with TCOM is presented (see DN550013486)
• Bellenot provides us with a hint when upgrading C code that handles fonts, going from Tk4 -> Tk8 (see DN549267897)
• An interesting test to compare languages is being performed. Tcl is on the block, so consider trying this out: (see DN549628706)
• TkDesk 1.2, a Unix/X11 file manager was released (see DN550454591)
• SRCE, another whack at configuration management on RCS, was announced for first public release (see DN550010205)
• Welch gives us an example of handling 302 redirection with the http package (see DN550199948)
• Yet another object system, TOS (Tcl Object System) is out for people to consider (see DN551077388)

Hint of the week: Do you miss the std channels on Windows when using Wish? If you tie wish via pipe to a program like cat, the std channels will go to the piped program, as in: "wish83d | cat32.exe" This trick is used when doing 'make test' on Windows from the Tk sources.