February 14, 2006
Tcl-URL!
Uwe Klein
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QOTW:
"If you don't need 'real Tcl', both Hecl and Jacl are viable
projects."—David N. Welton on comp.lang.tcl thus tickles the inner
eye of Adrian Ho:
http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/tv/kids/heckle&jeckle.htm
"The more I think about [eTcl], the more I feel empowered."—Richard
Suchenwirth
POTW:
iReveal is a cross-platform desktop file search tool, developed in
Tcl/Tk, that combines powerful under-the-hood search technology with great
ease-of-use. It scours corners of your hard drive that your system's
built-in search tools may ignore. It searches your system in real-time,
unlike other programs that can provide out-of-date results. It lets you
see files that are invisible in your file manager. Finally, it runs on all
three of the major desktop platforms: Mac OS X, Windows XP, and Linux.
- iReveal is shareware priced at $19.95. Developed by WordTech Software,
it requires Mac OS X 10.4.
http://www.wordtech-software.com/ireveal.html
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/d4453c2e05bca19d - Steve Redler announces the 13th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference, October 9-13,
2006 in Naperville, Illinois USA and issues a Call for Papers.
Submissions as plain text please to tcl2006@tcl.tk no later than May
31, 2006.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/a05051fd61f87d24 - You won't come clean with SOAP ( not with Tcl, eBay and Amazon )
But Adrian Ho found ways to bend XML to his will.
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/cc9a51f151d28825
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/6ee1185c4fb54f1f - The Cross with building for a span of platforms. A dissemination about
issues connected to OSX/Darwin by Robert Heller, Kevin Walzer and Daniel
Steffen:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/6551cc11c6e46430 - As already mentioned in the last TclURL Active State has been sold.
The rather relaxed tone of the ensuing discussion and and a bit of patting
by Cameron Laird indicates that this will not be detrimental to Tcl:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/352b5a11615fadb9 - Creating a fake channel in tcl for testing, simulation or other purposes.
After some sidestepping over manual pages A. Kupries memchan package is
deemed usefull:
http://wiki.tcl.tk/memchan
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/7f77f556183a809c - Ways and tricks to "binary scan"ing null terminated string are
presented that utilise either options to "binary scan" or postprocess
the result:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/916894a243fa769f
TIPX: new, used and discarded Tips
no new TIPS have been submitted but some shuffling was done:
- TIP 215 by Andreas Leitgeb : Make [incr] Auto-Initialize Undefined Variables
changed to Final
- TIP 258 by Don Porter : Enhanced Interface for Encodings
changed to Final
Thanks to Arjen Markus for his so-accurate summary of Wiki activity:
Sometimes things are simply not easy, as can be seen
from some pages on the Wiki this week ... Or is it
simply a matter of asking the right questions?
Tough questions
- How to combine WSDL and Tcl? Is that at all
feasible? Apparently ... http://wiki.tcl.tk/1716
- Is it a piece of cake, a nice generic name for a
platform? Or is it as difficult as this page
seems to indicate? http://wiki.tcl.tk/8522
- Here is another one: migrating your app to Tile!
How should you go about? http://wiki.tcl.tk/15443
All other kinds
- Are the pieces of a date and a time easier to come by?
Most certainly they are! Take your pick:
http://wiki.tcl.tk/15441 - Fancy a rubick-cube-like game? Sure, although your computer may
break its head over it: http://wiki.tcl.tk/15442 - The final unification of Tcl and OpenGL? If not,
it comes close to being the penultimate!
http://wiki.tcl.tk/15278
