Tcl-URL! - 2000/01/05

by Jeffrey Hobbs - DejaNews: [1]

• With the onset of 8.3, people are starting to take note of some of the positive new effects. Nijtmans answers one query as to why perceptions of a faster canvas widget are likely reality. (see DN565745356)
• Poindexter releases v1.2 of TclTicker, the stock ticket program, after receiving lots of enthusiastic ideas. (see DN565928002) http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/ftparchive/sorted/apps/tclticker/1.2/
• Brian starts a long thread about the upcoming ::listx command. (see DN566233578)
• While Kupries makes a note of what's there so far, with available source code. http://www.purl.org/NET/akupries/tcltk.html http://www.purl.org/NET/akupries/listx-src.tar.gz
• An interesting article on O'Reilly's web site ponders whether scripting languages can really call themselves VHLL (the author forgot to mention Tcl - maybe that's why the author concludes scripting languages lack the V? :^) http://www.oreilly.com/news/vhll_1299.html
• Welch informs us of another Tcl/Tk track at the next O'Reilly Open Source Convention, in July 2000. Gerald Lester will be heading it up. (thread [2]) (see DN566208347)
• Hobbs notes plans for an upcoming standardized library to be distributed along with (but not in) the core (thread [3])
• Strosberg hits on why you don't want to leave 'puts' calls in your Tcl code (thread [4])
• JCW notes that the popular Wiki, et al have moved (see DN566961311)
• The ASED Tcl/Tk IDE reaches v0.9.3 after small bug fixes (see DN567988957) http://home.t-online.de/home/andreas.sievers/asedhome.htm
• And last, but not least, Fontaine releases v10.1 of moodss, the Modular OO Dynamic SpreadSheet, which uses features of 8.3 (see DN568302793) http://jfontain.free.fr/