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VII. Where can I find information relating to Tcl on the Internet?
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From: FAQ General information
Subject: -VII- Where can I find information relating to Tcl on the Internet?
000. The following newsgroups often are likely locations for Tk extension
related discussions: news:comp.lang.tcl, news:comp.lang.perl.tk,
news:comp.lang.python, news:comp.lang.misc.
Announcements about Tcl or Tk related code releases may be seen in
news:comp.lang.tcl.announce, news:comp.archives,
news:comp.windows.x.announce, and news:comp.lang.perl.announce
as well.
Discussions concerning porting of Tcl and/or Tk into new OSes occasionally
are found in newsgroups such as news:comp.os.linux.development.apps,
news:comp.sys.mac.programmer.help, news:comp.windows.x,
news:comp.sys.next.software, and news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc.
Discussions relating to specific applications can be found in newsgroups
such as news:alt.comp.tkdesk.
Foreign language discussions concerning Tcl and Tk can be found in
news:maus.os.linux, news:maus.os.linux68k,
news:de.comp.lang.tcl, news:fr.comp.lang.tcl,
and news:fj.lang.tcl.
001. The introductory papers on Tcl and Tk by Dr. J. Ousterhout are
available at ftp://tcl.activestate.com/pub/tcl/doc/tclUsenix90.ps,
ftp://tcl.activestate.com/pub/tcl/doc/tkUsenix91.ps,
ftp://tcl.activestate.com/pub/tcl/doc/tkF10.ps. (The last of these files
is the contents of Figure 10 of the Tk paper). The examples from the
Ousterhout book are available in one large file as
ftp://tcl.activestate.com/pub/tcl/doc/book.examples.Z. A series of
PostScript slides used in an introduction/tutorial on Tcl and Tk at
several X and Usenix Conferences are available as
ftp://tcl.activestate.com/pub/tcl/doc/tut.tar.Z. Dr. Ousterhout has
written an engineering style guide that describes the coding, documentation,
and testing conventions that are used in Tcl and has made it available to
other Tcl/Tk developers. It is located at
ftp://tcl.activestate.com/pub/tcl/doc/engManual.tar.Z. Feedback is welcome,
but specifics concerning actual conventions are unlikely to change. Primarily
there is room for changes on the presentation itself, as well as additional
conventions which should be present but are not. Notes pointing to a conflict
between a stated convention and Tcl or Tk base code are of interest. Send
comments to Dr. Ousterhout http://home.pacbell.net/ouster/.
There is also pointers to slide
presentations made at the Symposium on Very High Level Languages and papers
concerning intelligent agents on the Internet.
Pointers to various Tcl applications (such as the Tcl Plugin, SpecTcl/SpecJava,
WebTk), as well as FAQs and tutorials about these applications, can be found
on the http://www.tcl-tk.net/ site.
A page comparing Tcl to Visual Basic, Perl and Javascript can be found at
http://www.tcl.tk/advocacy.html.
A series of "How To" articles are also available at TDX. See
http://www.tcl.tk/doc/howto/ for pointers to articles
on using TclPro, using Tcl 8.1 regular expressions and internationalization
features, creating tcl object commands, the option command, namespaces,
tcl threading models, and more.
002. PostScript versions of published papers by mailto:libes@nist.gov
(Don Libes) relating to Expect can be found on the net.
(See "bibliography/part1") for details about the published papers.
http://expect.nist.gov/doc/bgpasswd.ps.Z
http://expect.nist.gov/doc/chargraph-codewalkthru.ps.Z
http://expect.nist.gov/doc/expectk.ps.Z
http://expect.nist.gov/doc/kibitz.ps.Z
http://expect.nist.gov/doc/regress.ps.Z
http://expect.nist.gov/doc/scripts.ps.Z
http://expect.nist.gov/doc/seminal.ps.Z
http://expect.nist.gov/doc/sysadm.ps.Z
http://expect.nist.gov/doc/tcl-debug.ps.Z
http://www.nist.gov/msidlibrary/doc/libes96a.ps
http://www.nist.gov/msidlibrary/doc/libes96c.ps
http://www.nist.gov/msidlibrary/doc/libes97a.ps
http://www.mel.nist.gov/msidlibrary/summary/9729.html
http://www.mel.nist.gov/msidlibrary/summary/9731.html
Some pointers to information concerning the Exploring Expect book
are http://gnn.com/gnn/bus/ora/features/expect/,
http://gnn.com/gnn/bus/ora/item/expect.html,
ftp://ftp.cme.nist.gov/pub/expect/errata.
Also, see http://expect.nist.gov/ for the WWW home of
Expect, as well as other tools that Don has written. A web page for Don's
CGI library can be found at http://expect.nist.gov/cgi.tcl/.
Also, someone has taken the documentation for Expect and reformatted it
so that it can be installed on a Palm Pilot. Search
http://www.memoware.com/ for the current version.
003. A set of PostScript files collected for the Tcl 93 workshop proceedings
is available as
ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/devel/workshop/1993/tcl93-proceedings.tar.gz
and contains the PostScript for a number of the papers and slides
presented at this workshop.
004. A second set of PostScript files consisting primarily of overhead slides
is available as
ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/devel/workshop/1993/tcl93-proceedings2.tar.gz
005. The Tcl Compiler (TC) Frequently Asked Questions by Adam Sah
mailto:asah@cs.Berkeley.EDU is a document describing TC, which is
a work in progress. Contact Adam for details.
006. A compact yet detailed overview of Tcl, Tk and Xf is available thanks
to the graciousness of mailto:theobald@fzi.de (Dietmar Theobald) at
ftp://ftp.fzi.de/pub/OBST/current/compress/psfiles/TclTk_notes.ps.Z
(compressed format) and
ftp://ftp.fzi.de/pub/OBST/current/gzip/psfiles/TclTk_notes.ps.gz
(gzip format). More on the entire OBST project, which is an object-oriented
database interface called tclOBST, can be found at the
ftp://ftp.fzi.de/pub/OBST/www/OBST.html page.
It is called Tcl/Tk in a Nutshell, was last updated in July of 1993,
and is part of the STONE structured open environment.
007. Softcopy of an article about PhoneStation, a tool using Tk and Tcl
presented at the 1993 Winter USENIX Conference is available as
ftp://bellcore.com/pub/PhoneStation/USENIX.ps.
008. A paper on Radar Control software which uses Tcl, by J. H. VanAndel is
available in PostScript form via the experimental web server
http://www.atd.ucar.edu/jva/RadarControl.AMS.ps.
009. Mark A. Harrison mailto:markh@usai.asiainfo.com has written a
Tk/Tcl information sheet, providing an introductory look at why one
might want to use Tcl and Tk. Version 1.0 was posted to comp.lang.tcl
as news:278ml0$457@news.utdallas.edu. Contact him for a copy.
Mark also gave a paper
http://conferences.oreilly.com/cd/tcl/presentations/mharrison/slide001.html
at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference on how Tcl/Tk is being used in
China, and how easy Tcl/Tk 8.2 made things.
010. Cedric Beust mailto:beust@modja.inria.fr has written a short
article giving guidelines on where to start when writing a Tcl
extension. You may find it at
ftp://avahi.inria.fr/tcl/writing-a-tcl-extension.ps. It is
titled "Writing a Tcl extension: the Toocl example" and describes the
work done on the Tooltalk extension. The paper is dated August 10,
1993.
011. Douglas Pan and Mark Linton mailto:linton@marktwain.rad.sgi.com have
written the paper ``Dish: A Dynamic Invocation Shell for Fresco''.
It is available at ftp://sgi.com/graphics/fresco/dish.ps.Z. The FAQ
as well as some other papers are in ftp://sgi.com/graphics/fresco/.
Fresco is an X Consortium project - non-members interested in contributing
to the effort should contact Mark Linton.
012. The World-Wide Web Virtual Library now has a page on Tcl and Tk.
You can find it at http://cuisung.unige.ch/TclTk.html.
It points off to a number of other resources, though certainly
not all of them.
013. A WorldWideWeb (WWW) resource for Ada Tcl is available as
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/homes/arcadia/public_html/adatcl.html.
014.
015. A WWW resource for what appears to be a German introduction/tutorial
on Tcl and Tk is at http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/home/stb/tcl_tk/tcl_tk.html.
016. A WWW resource describing the HTML to Tcl preprocessor is
available at http://www.lbl.gov/%7Eclarsen/projects/htcl.html.
017. See http://www.iversonsoftware.com/service.html for a WWW
directory of services relating to Tcl.
018. A WWW resource discussing Tk/Tcl style issues is available at
http://www.atd.ucar.edu/jva/TCL.style.html
019. A WWW resource discussing Visual Numerics PV-Wave with Tk/Tcl is
available at http://www.atd.ucar.edu/jva/rds/wave_tk.html.
020. Cameron Laird mailto:claird@phaseit.net has a number
of extremely useful WWW pages relating to Tcl. For instance, one
provides assistance to users in resolving common linking problems when
building Tcl.
http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.unix.programmer/linking-unix.html.
Others covering a wide variety of subjects, such as
Tcl compilers http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.tcl/tcl_compilers.html,
server side WWW Tcl scripting, and many others, are available beginning at
http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.tcl/.
as well as others that you can find from his home page.
http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.tcl/server_side_tcl.html
covers web servers with tcl embedded.
For instance, see
http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.unix.misc/unix_binaries.html.
for pointers to various binaries.
Note that Cameron has pages concerning Tcl 8.0 migration, pointers to
Tcl Workshop reviews and spin offs, and many other topics - too many
to list here. Cameron has also written a number of articles in SunWorld,
including this
http://www.sun.com/sunworldonline/swol-10-1997/swol-10-scripting.html
article discussing the pros and cons of the major scripting languages,
or
http://www.sunworld.com/unixinsideronline/swol-03-2001/swol-0302-regex.html
which discusses Tk and Unicode support.
He also provides
http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.tcl/tcl-examples.html
which begins an effort to provide a variety of 'good' tcl code examples.
http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.tcl/tcl_tutorials.html
contains pointers to a varity of tutorials.
http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.tcl/tcl_on_win.html
contains information regarding Tcl on Windows.
http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-1999/swol-11-jacl.html
provides a brief overview of how to get started with Jacl and TclBlend.
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-xtcl.html
is an article written by Cameron about XML and web service programming in Tcl.
http://phaseit.net/claird/misc/writing/publications.html
and http://regularexpressions.com/ point to several articles of
potential interest to Tcl-ers.
021. Nat Pryce mailto:np2@doc.ic.ac.uk began a project to collect
Tcl programming idioms or patterns. See
http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/%7Enp2/patterns/tcl/ for the original
root of this document. He has now moved the data to the more generic
http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/%7Enp2/patterns/scripting/ which
deals with various scripting languages, but continues providing
Tcl specific idioms in its own sub-tree.
http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/%7Enp2/software/tcl-setup.html discusses
how to set up Windows environment to launch Tcl applications.
022. A set of WWW resources discussing the Fermilab's use of Tcl within
a massive data manipulation package at one time was found at
http://sdss.fnal.gov:8000/spectro/doc/www/spectro.home.html
http://sdss.fnal.gov:8000/shiva/doc/www/shiva.home.html
http://sdss.fnal.gov:8000/ftcl/extended/tcllib/help
as well as various pages underneath this set of homes.
The problem is to digitally image the entire night sky in five colors,
and the entire top layer of the data reduction package is based on Tcl.
023. A soft file containing notes on Tcl and quoting philosophy can be
found at ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/info/doc/README.programmer.gz.
024. There are references to Tcl and Tk (and perhaps other Tcl based
interpreters) within The Catalog of Free Compilers and Interpreters
http://cuiwww.unige.ch/freecomp and
The Language List http://cuiwww.unige.ch/langlist.
025. The first Tcl 'home page' available via the WWW URL was at sco.com .
It appears to be gone now.
Thanks to Mike Hopkirk mailto:hops@sco.com for the time,
energy and resources for having made this available.
Note that one of the older versions of this page is also available for those behind a firewall as
ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/info/tclhtml.tar.gz.
This WWW link used to be mirrored at numerous locations.
The info on this page, the last I checked, was 2-3 years out of date, but
might be useful for someone looking for tips for older versions of tcl.
026. A Tcl based chat room called Felix is avail at
http://www.larochelle-innovation.com/tcltk/felix.tml.
027. The PLEAC project aims to re-implement the solutions presented in the
O'Reilly Perl Cookbook in other programming languages. Tcl is represented - but
only a small degree. See http://pleac.sourceforge.net/ and contribute
where you can.
028. One develper's details on building a static version of wish are outlined
at http://www.daveashley.com/apjs/ma000014/
029. Documentation on the Tcl processing of WWW's server Common Gateway
Interface (known as CGI) can be found at
http://www.lbl.gov/%7Eclarsen/projects/htcl/http-proc-args.html.
030. Mark Roseman mailto:roseman@cpsc.ucalgary.ca prepared a brief
comparison between Tcl/Tk and the Interviews C++ toolkit. It is
available via email by contacting him. Mark kept a WWW page
going concerning Macintosh Tcl/Tk related projects. It used to be at
http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/%7Eroseman/mactcl/, however that
currently doesn't seem to be working.
031. Information about the SIMON Mosaic hotlist management tool can be
found at http://web.elec.qmw.ac.uk/simon/.
032. Information about Fritz Heinrichmeyer's experimental Schematic SPICE
interface, tkSketch, is available from
http://es-sun2.fernuni-hagen.de/%7Ejfh/es-sun2/editor/editor/editor.html.
Fritz is using STk for further development of this tool.
033. Information about ical is now accessible from
http://clef.lcs.mit.edu/%7Esanjay/ical.html.
034. Wade Holst mailto:wade@cs.ualberta.ca at one point provided HyperTcl,
a WWW page providing various views on info available to the Tcl community.
Unfortunately, it has grown out of date.
It can still be found at http://web.cs.ualberta.ca/%7Ewade/HyperTcl/.
035. An interesting site is http://pitch.nist.gov/nics/,
which is a database registry for various domains of topics.
Don Libes mailto:libes@nist.gov has created a Tcl domain
where one can, for instance, do a search for rand and find pointers to
various implementations of random number generators for Tcl. The
NICS paper Don presented at one of the Tcl conferences is
http://www.mel.nist.gov/msidlibrary/doc/usenix.ps.
See also the news article
http://www.reference.com/cgi-bin/pn/go.py?searchspace=Usenet+%26+Mailing+List+Archive&ranking=by+Relevance&querytext=s6a7m4bqdra.fsf@muffin.nist.gov&choice=Search
for an explanation Don posted to news:comp.lang.tcl.
A domain has also been created at the NIST Identifier Collaboration
Service for Tcl object types.
036. The Linux Gazette, found at WWW http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/lg/,
has mentioned Tcl or Tk in at least Issues 9, 10, 11.
037. A Tk reference card can be found at
ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/info/ref/tkrefcard.tar.gz.
This TeX and PostScript version of a Tk 3.3 card was provided by
Paul Raines mailto:raines@slac.stanford.edu.
A home page for tkmail can be found at
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/%7Eraines/tkmail.html.
038. A good document on Xauth is available at
ftp://ph-meter.beckman.uiuc.edu/security/xsecurity.ps
or
ftp://ph-meter.beckman.uiuc.edu/security/xsecurity.txt.
039. The documentation for the Xf command is available in European page format
as ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/distrib/tclx/xf/xf-doc.ps.gz
as well as United States page format as
ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/distrib/tclx/xf/xf-doc-us.ps.gz.
040. Vivek Khera mailto:khera@cs.duke.edu has written a primer on
setting up your environment for xauth (by default a requirement under
Tk 3.3) in the document ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/misc/Xauthority/Xauthority.gz.
041. A list of MPEG animations, done with Tcl scripts using TSIPP can
be found at http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/tebo/Anims.
042. Project DA-CLOD (Distributedly Administered Categorical List of Documents)
allows the Web participants to set up organizational pages. So a Tcl
page has been set up. Check out
http://schiller.wustl.edu/DACLOD/daclod
or go directly to Tcl by way of
http://schiller.wustl.edu/DACLOD/daclod?id=00024.dcl.
044. A home page for a map marking program can be found at
http://www.dl.ac.uk/CBMT/mapmarker/v02a/doc_html/HOME.html.
045. The Scientific Applications on Linux (SAL) web site is a collection
of information and links to software that will be of interest to
scientists and engineers. The broad coverage of Linux applications will
also benefit the whole Linux/Unix community. It includes a few
Tcl entries - thought not many that are truly scientific in nature.
http://SAL.KachinaTech.com/.
046. Clif Flynt's WWW page http://www.msen.com/%7Eclif/TclLint.html
compares a number of the static tcl code validity testers that are
available.
The contents of his poster session from the 1997 Tcl/Tk workshop in
Boston, found at http://www.msen.com/%7Eclif/tricks/Poster.html,
discuss a set of coding conventions to help reduce the pain of
maintaining Tcl.
047. Documentation for the DART project can be found at
http://fndaub.fnal.gov:8000/dart_v1_0.html.
There may be some problem with this server.
048. NeoSoft has a TclX home page - see
http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/default.html. They also have a home
page for NeoWebScript, an extension to the Apache HTTP server to allow
adding features via tcl. See http://www.neowebscript.com/.
See also the following:
http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/tclhtml/Tcl.html
http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/tclservices.html
http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/tcltraining.html
http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/TclX.html
http://www.neosoft.com/tools/default.html
http://www.neosoft.com/users/a/apc/html/homepage.html
http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/contributed-software/
049. An overview page for the program currently known as tkWWW is
http://uu-gna.mit.edu:8001/tk-www/help/overview.html.
A status page for tkWWW from CERN is found at
http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/TkWWW/Status.html
Internals information can be found at
gopher://gopher.slac.stanford.edu/h0/WWW%20Documentation/TkWWWDoc/internals.html
050. An example of the output from TreeLink can be found at
http://aorta.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/%7Egaier/treelink/.
TreeLink is a Tk/Tcl program which draws a hypergraph of links from an
HTML document.
051. The documentation for the ILU software environment, which enables
systems to be written which communicate between many different languages,
including Tcl, can be found at
ftp://parcftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/ilu/ilu.html.
052. Huayong YANG mailto:yang@twain.ucs.umass.edu in
news:2q1iko$8cj@nic.umass.edu wrote a review of Tcl and the Tk Toolkit.
053. A page to locate the various versions of Wafe can be found at
http://www.es.net/pub/public-domain/wafe/.INDEX.html.
Wafe's home page can be found at http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/wafe/wafe.html.
054. A draft paper titled "Kidnapping X Applications" is available as a
part of the TkSteal tar file. It is authored by Sven Delmas and
discusses the use of the TkSteal package to integrate existing X
applications into a Tcl/Tk
based program without having to make changes to the X application.
055. A page dedicated to the new HTML editor tkHTML used to be found at
http://www.ssc.com/%7Eroland/tkHTML/tkHTML.html. It is now missing.
056. A WWW section for Hdrug , an environment to develop logic grammars
for natural languages, is available at
http://tyr.let.rug.nl/%7Evannoord/prolog-app/Hdrug/.
It uses ProTcl and TkSteal.
057. The HTML slides and demo pictures for Patrick Duval's talk in New Orleans
titled ``Tcl-Me, a Tcl Multimedia Extension'' can be viewed at
ftp://ftp.inria.fr/scratch/made/www/tcl-me/slide.1.html
and are available as a tar file at
ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/devel/workshop/1994/tcl-me.tar.gz.
058. A set of HTML pages for the scotty and tkined applications have been
created. They can be found at
http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/nm/tkined/welcome.html
and
http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/nm/scotty/welcome.html.
059. An archive for the distributed processing incr tcl discussion may
be found at gopher://nisp.ncl.ac.uk/11/lists-a-e/distinct/.
060. A copy of the dynamic loading of code strategy paper
Kevin B. Kenny mailto:kennykb@acm.org
presented at the Tcl 94 workshop is accessible on WWW as
http://ce-toolkit.crd.ge.com/papers/gecrd/mtl/mdip/tcl94/00header.html.
061. Terry Evans mailto:tevans@cs.utah.edu is coordinating work on a
tcl/tk interface to gdb. Send him email if you would like to help out.
062. The HTML home page of Jonathan Kaye mailto:kaye@linc.cis.upenn.edu,
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/%7Ekaye/home.html, contains a pointer to
lisp2wish, a package that allows a Tcl/Tk process and LISP process
to synchronously communicate.
063. The following are a series of references to papers
relating to the Safe TCL package.
ftp://thumper.bellcore.com/pub/nsb/st/safe-tcl.ps
ftp://thumper.bellcore.com/pub/nsb/st/safe-tcl.txt
ftp://thumper.bellcore.com/pub/nsb/st/em-model.txt
064. A review of Tcl and the Tk Toolkit appeared in misc.books.technical
on May 2, 1994 as Message-ID: news:2q1iko$8cj@nic.umass.edu by
mailto:yang@twain.ucs.umass.edu (Huayong YANG) who recommended the book
to X window system programmers.
065. Mark Eichin mailto:eichin@cygnus.com has a HTML page in which
he describes a Tcl random number generator. See
http://www.cygnus.com/%7Eeichin/random-tcl.html for details. See
http://www.cygnus.com/%7Eeichin/ for pointers to a graph editor
and a dialog box set of routines. At
http://www.cygnus.com/%7Eeichin/grapheditor/mkdialog
you will find the code to make dialog boxes.
066. The ftp address for a Quick Reference TeX guide, updated recently
to Tcl 7.3 is ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/info/ref/QuickRef.tar.gz.
Many thanks to mailto:Jeff.Tranter@software.mitel.com (Jeff Tranter) for
contributing it.
067. PostScript versions of the man pages were provided by
mailto:lexfiend@usa.net (Adrian Ho) (???). The addresses for these are
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/UCB/tcl/barkley/docs/tcl6.3.manps.tar.Z
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/UCB/tcl/barkley/docs/tclX6.2b.manps.tar.Z
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/UCB/tcl/barkley/docs/tk2.1.manps.tar.Z
068. A series of papers concerning GroupKit are available as
ftp://ftp.cpsc.ucalgary/papers/groupkit.CSCW92.tar.Z
ftp://ftp.cpsc.ucalgary/papers/tclgk.TCLWorkshop93.ps.Z
and
ftp://ftp.cpsc.ucalgary/papers/roseman.msc.thesis.ps.Z.
An html page is available at
http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/projects/grouplab/groupkit/groupkit.html.
069. Documentation concerning the DejaGnu Testing Framework can be found
at http://www.cygnus.com/doc/dejagnu/dejagnu_toc.html.
070. A very elementary introduction/tutorial to Tk 3.6 can be found at
http://http2.brunel.ac.uk:8080/%7Ecsstddm/TCL2/TCL2.html. It is being
written by mailto:David.Martland@brunel.ac.uk (Dr. David_Martland).
071. Another new Tcl/Tk topic area is
http://www.links2go.com/topic/TCL/TK/.
072. The documentation for the Object Oriented Graphics package GOOD
can be viewed at http://metallica.prakinf.tu-ilmenau.de/GOOD.html.
073. mailto:slshen@lbl.gov Sam Shen's WWW page has some useful Tcl
related items. For instance, a demo of the NArray (numeric array) extension
can be seen by pointing a forms-capable WWW browser at
http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/%7Esls/narray/. One can also get Sam's SNTL
Tcl support library at http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/%7Esls/woa/distrib/.
074. The source code from the article "A Tutorial Introduction to Tcl and
Tk" by mailto:gam@lanl.gov (Graham Mark) in Issue 11 (July, 1994) of
The X Resource, can be found at
ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/examples/xresource/issue11/TclTk.tar.Z
or on one of the ORA mirror sites. This is for Tk 3.6.
075. Brent Welch now works at Interwoven mailto:brent.welch@interwoven.com.
He has a web page at http://www.beedub.com/book/ for his book,
Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk which is published by Prentice Hall.
The errata for Brent's book can be found at the book's web site.
Brent's home page is http://www.beedub.com/. At his home page,
you will find pointers to Exmh, a Tk interface to MH that Brent has written.
076. The code from the article comparing MetaCard, dtksh and Tcl/Tk
from Issue 11 (July, 1994) of The X Resource can be found at
ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/examples/xresource/issue11/Interactive.tar.Z.
077. A WWW home page for Collaborative Biomolecular Tools (CBMT)
can be found at http://www.dl.ac.uk/CBMT/HOME.html. These
tools consist at a minimum of a Biomolecular C++ class library,
a library of filters and scripts in many languages, including Tcl,
GUI components in Tk and possibly other GUI languages, as well as other
data. Read the page for more details.
078. The first Internet TclRobots Challenge was held on September 30,
1994. mailto:tpoindex@nyx.net (Tom Poindexter) was the official
judge. The winner was Jack Hsu mailto:jh@cs.umd.edu with
Honorable Mention going to
Lionel Mallet mailto:Lionel.Mallet@sophia.inria.fr,
Stephen O. Lidie mailto:lusol@Lehigh.EDU,
and Motonori Hirano mailto:m-hirano@sra.co.jp.
The results can be seen at
ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/misc/TclRobots/challenge-1/challenge-1.tar.gz.
The results from the second challenge can be found at
ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/misc/TclRobots/challenge-2/challenge-2.tar.gz.
079. J.M. Ivler has provided http://www.wwinfo.com/tcl/ (???) as
a WWW based package registration tool. In this way, authors can
notify the Tcl community as to relevant software.
080. The WWW NNTP page for comp.lang.tcl is found at
http://ecsdg.lu.se/cgi-bin/wwwnntp?comp.lang.tcl.
081. The WWW home page for the AudioFile package, which has a number of
Tcl based clients, can be found at
http://orbit.cs.engr.latech.edu/AF/.
083. A technical report describing the use and implementation of
tkSather is available as
ftp://csis.dit.csiro.au/pub/sather/papers/tkSather.ps.Z.
Other information concerning Sather and Tk can be found at
http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/Sather/.
084. A home page for the Teaching Hypertools series of tools is now available
at http://www.ece.cmu.edu/afs/ece/usr/svoboda/www/th/homepage.html.
This series of tools is intended to be used to add new features to existing
running Tk tools. An extended editor, designed to cooperate with the
teacher hypertools, is described at
http://www.ece.cmu.edu/afs/ece/usr/svoboda/www/elsbeth/homepage.html.
085. The home page for the Tcl question and answers FAQ can be found at
http://psg.com/%7Ejoem/tcl/faq.html. It is maintained by
mailto:jmoss@ichips.intel.com (Joe V. Moss).
086. A paper from the 1997 Austrailian WWW Technical Conference titled
"Scripting the Web With Tcl/Tk" by
Steve Ball mailto:Steve.Ball@tcltk.anu.edu.au can be found at
http://tcltk.anu.edu.au/courses/TclTk-Web/.
087. A ProTCL WWW page (describing the Prolog to Tcl/Tk interface) can be
found by browsing http://www.ecrc.de/eclipse/html/protcl.html.
088. A Work In Progress report from SAGE-AU'94 concerning cpumon can be found
at ftp://bilby.cs.uwa.oz.au/pub/glenn/sage-au94.ps. Note that at
one point, there were some missing screen dumps from the paper, but
it should be updated when the author replaces the images.
089. WWW documentation for the Portable Tk project can be found at
http://www.cs.hut.fi/%7Ekjk/porttk.html. This project's goal
is to provide proof of concept to the idea of creating a version of Tk
which is portable between X, Windows, MacOS, AmigaDOS, and OS/2.
090. A WWW input form for feedback on Jon Knight's TCL-DP with Multicast
IP can be found at http://hill.lut.ac.uk/cgi-bin/tdpmfeedback.
091. The SCOP command is a program which drives Mosaic and rasMol. See
http://www.bio.cam.ac.uk/scop/ for details.
092. An article as to why one programmer believes that Tcl use does not
scale to larger projects, see
http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/drafts/why-tcl-doesnt-scale.html
093. A WWW page which describes a Tcl frontend for processing WWW queries
and forms can be found at http://www.midwinter.com/%7Ekoreth/uncgi.html.
094. A WWW page describing an [incr tcl] widget base class can be found
at http://scorch.doc.ic.ac.uk/%7Enp2/itcl_widgets. It is by
mailto:np2@doc.ic.ac.uk (Nat Pryce).
095. mailto:dpgerdes@europa.ftc.scs.ag.gov (David Gerdes) has made
available a set of black and white slides that he used to teach a course
on Tcl and Tk, with an emphasis on Tk 3.6. They can be found at
ftp://moon.cecer.army.mil/pub/tcl/dpg/class/SLIDES4.ps. They are
packed 4 per page. If anyone wants the originals he has offered to put
them there also. There are also some trivial scripts designed to get
people started.
096. mailto:wayne@icemcfd.com (Wayne A. Christopher) has begun a WWW page
with pointers to usenet and other articles comparing Tcl and its
extensions to other language systems. You can find this at
http://www.icemcfd.com/tcl/comparison.html. At this time, there are
comparisons between tcl/lisp/python, a discussion of Perl versus Tcl,
articles by Stallman, Ousterhout and Throop regarding the use of Tcl in
the FSF, and a critical review of stk. More articles will be added as
folk make contributions. Another WWW page, maintained by
mailto:glv@utdallas.edu (Glenn Vanderburg), is at
http://www.utdallas.edu/%7Eglv/Tcl/war/ and deals with a
series of selected responses to the Stallman flame war of GNU vs Tcl
which occured during 1994.
Two other Tcl related pages can be found at
http://www.icemcfd.com/tcl/ice.html and
http://www.icemcfd.com/wayne.html.
098. A WWW page to the tcl archives at luth.se can be found at
http://ftp.luth.se/pub/languages/tcl/.
099. A WWW page describing the interface between Perl 4.x and Tk can be
found at http://www.ira.uka.de/IRA/SMILE/tkperl/.
100. While not directly supporting Tcl, the WWW page at
http://WWW.thp.Uni-Duisburg.DE/Ygl/ReadMe.html describes an X11
version of a simulation of SGI's GL under X11. You might try this with
the Tcl/Tk OpenGL interfaces.
101. Most of the papers from the Tcl 94 workshop can be found at
ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/devel/workshop/1994/1994_workshop.tar.gz.
Also, a few papers and slides did not make it into the above file. They
can be found at
ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/devel/workshop/1994/Lindsay_Marshall-slides.ps.gz
ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/devel/workshop/1994/Thomas_Phelps-slides.gz
ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/devel/workshop/1994/fstajano-tcl94-paper.ps.gz
ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/devel/workshop/1994/fstajano-tcl94-slides.ps.gz.
102. The PostScript version of the Master's thesis by Adam Sah
mailto:asah@cs.Berkeley.EDU can be found at
ftp://ginsberg.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/papers/asah/msthesis.ps.gz.
ftp://ginsberg.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/papers/asah/tcl-fear.html.
103. A PostScript version of the paper on Rush, the Tcl like language
by Adam Sah mailto:asah@cs.Berkeley.EDU and John Blow can be found at
ftp://ginsberg.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/papers/asah/rush-vhll94.ps.gz
as well as
ftp://ginsberg.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/papers/asah/rush-tcl94.ps.gz
104. An Internet commercial company is using software based on Safe-Tcl.
An index to their technical information can be found at
http://www.fv.com/tech/.
105. A home page for YART/VR can be found by looking at
http://metallica.prakinf.tu-ilmenau.de/YARTVR.html.
106. A readme for the Phoenix WYSIWYG HTML editor can be found at
http://www.bsd.uchicago.edu/ftp/pub/phoenix/README.html. It
is based on tkWWW. Also see
http://http.bsd.uchicago.edu/%7El-newberg/phoenix-0.1.8.html.
107. The user guide for a multigrid galerkin hierarchical adaptive
triangles solution to second order linear elliptic partial equations,
which uses Tk to display graphical results, can be found at
http://gams.nist.gov/reports/mgghat/userguide/userguide.html.
108. A home page for an integration of Safe-Tcl/Tk and Mosaic's CCI API
can be found http://gdbdoc.gdb.org/letovsky/tcl/ccitcl.html.
109. Some summary notes on the Tcl Birds of a Feather session at
the January 1995 USENIX session can be found at
http://www.utdallas.edu/acc/glv/Tcl/usenix95-bof.html.
110. A page of pointers to various Tcl/Tk programs and extensions written by
Dan Wallach (such as TkLayers, TkPostage and TkGLXAux) can be found at
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/%7Edwallach/hacks.html.
111. An HTML version of the TclCommandWriting man page that comes with
TclX has been made available on the WWW at
http://psg.com/%7Ejoem/CmdWrite.html. This page explains the C
API to Tcl, providing an introduction/tutorial on writing Tcl extensions.
112. A new server is available and serving up SuperTclTk. It can be found
at http://130.209.12.75:8001/ during GMT 17:00-9:00 .
113. Full Oracle 9i documentation about Tcl can be found at
http://download-west.oracle.com/otndoc/oracle9i/901_doc/em.901/a88771/chap4.htm#46268
114. A preliminary, older draft of a thesis detailing work
on the use of Tcl and Tk in intelligent agents can be found at
ftp://hplyot.obspm.fr/adonis/adonis_dai.ps.gz. More information
should be forthcoming in the months ahead. The software, without
a lot of good documentation, could possibly be available from
the contact of Laurent Demailly mailto:dl@demailly.com.
http://www.demailly.com/%7Edl/ details a list of tools written
using Tcl, written by Laurent. Note in particular the WWW related tools
mentioned on this page - there is even a single process multi-tasking
Tcl http server. An Anonymous Proxy HTTP server written in Tcl is
accessible at http://hplyot.obspm.fr:6661/, with the source
at http://hplyot.obspm.fr:6661/source. Laurent also speculates
about a smaller Tcl-look alike language more suitable for embedding on
devices, etc. See http://www.demailly.com/%7Edl/stcl.html.
115. The documentation for OSE, a set of tools for C++ development which
includes a class to provide integration of Tk with a more comprehensive
C++ based poll/select event handling mechanism, can be found at
http://www.telstra.com.au/docs/ose/doc/ose-home.html.
116. The Coral deductive database home page is
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/coral/. There is a Tk client which can interact
with a Coral server. There is also a Tcl shell with Coral database
commands, and an explanation tool.
117. At http://nathan.gmd.de/projects/ml/mobal/mobal.html you will
find the home page for Mobal, which is a data mining system which has
a Tk GUI interface.
118. Some published papers relating to Tcl can be found at the following
location
http://tns-www.lcs.mit.edu/publications/ICMCS94a.html
http://tns-www.lcs.mit.edu/publications/acmmm94.html
http://tns-www.lcs.mit.edu/publications/mitlcstr640.html
http://tns-www.lcs.mit.edu/publications/usenix.net94.html
http://www.tns.lcs.mit.edu/ViewStation/src/html/publications/tcltk95_djw.html
http://www.tns.lcs.mit.edu/ViewStation/src/html/publications/usenix_vhll94_cjl.html
119. A pointer to a paper discussing Object Tcl is
http://www.tns.lcs.mit.edu/publications/tcltk95.html.
120. A pointer to mailto:derijkp@reks.uia.ac.be (Peter.DeRijk)'s
page on Tcl is http://www-rrna.uia.ac.be/%7Epeter/tcl.html.
121. Pacco is a set of widgets that extend Tk for object visualization.
Its home page is http://iride.unipv.it/pacco/.
122. A toolkit of software is available from
http://ce-toolkit.crd.ge.com/tcl/. Many things are
on this page - a dynamic loading tcl shell, an encoded URL to Tcl array
decoder, a support library for embedding tcl in HTML template files, a
support library to provide support for mailto like functionalify, a
simple order form generator, and a user interface support library are
present. This is also the home for tkauxlib, a support library for
extended Tcl/Tk capabilities http://ce-toolkit.crd.ge.com/tkauxlib/.
There are also published papers on the
use of Tcl/Tk in a production application, a proposal for dynamically
loading libraries in Tcl and a note on what to do when Tk reports that
your display is insecure, all pointed to from this page.
http://ce-toolkit.crd.ge.com/tcl-www/man/ is the index of
the manual pages for Tcl-WWW.
http://ce-toolkit.crd.ge.com/tkxauth/ is the URL for information on
using/debugging Tk vs X windows authorization problems.
123. A home page for Jay Sekora mailto:js@aq.org's jstools is at
http://shore.net/%7Ejs/js-jstools.html.
124. A WWW page detailing Tcl resources can be found at
http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Programming_Languages/Tcl_Tk/.
125. Online versions of Tcl and Tk manual pages can be found at
http://cuiwww.unige.ch/eao/www/TclTkMan/.
126. A WWW page pointing to various Tcl/Tk software resources can be
found at http://www.ensta.fr/internet/unix/tcl-tk/.
127. The home page for mailto:curt@sledge.mn.org (Curtis L. Olson),
http://www.menet.umn.edu/%7Ecurt/, contains pointers to
a Tcl/Tk interface to a check book balance program.
128. At the 1994 WWW conference, a number of papers were presented
which mentioned Tcl. These papers can be found in the proceedings located at
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/. Here are the
papers that have been brought to my attention to date.
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/Agents/gutfreund/gutfreund.html
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/Agents/spetka/spetka.html
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/Agents/whitehead/whitehead.html
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/Astronomy/jackson/jackson.html
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/CorInfSys/ivler/edstlk1.html
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/DDay/pinckney/dd.html
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/DDay/schwartz/schwartz.html
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/DDay/singh/ixiwww94.html
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/DDay/soo/www94a.html
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/MedTrack/willard/UMHC_www/UMHC_www_paper.html
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/Pub/weibel/weibel_www_paper.html
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/Searching/doemel/www-fall94.html
129. Several articles discussing WWW applications written using the Tcl
extension Hush can be found. One, discussing WWW chat boards, is at
http://orgwis.gmd.de/projects/W4G/proceedings/chatting.html.
Another, covering integrating applications and the World Wide Web is at
http://www.igd.fhg.de/www/www95/papers/48/main.html.
130. mailto:mmccool@cgl.UWaterloo.CA (Michael D. McCool) used
Tcl to teach a course in 3D computer graphics at the University of
Waterloo. See http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/%7Emmccool/gn.HTML/gn.html
more information. Basically, they are using Tcl/Tk both to build UI's
for projects and to build an object-oriented graphics command language
that they call "Gn", for "graphics notation."
131. The page http://www.elf.org/ is home for a number of Tcl/Tk
related items. For instance, there is quite an interesting lunar calendar
that you can view there.
132. The home page for Phantom, a new interpreted language designed for large
scale interactive distirbuted applications, can be found at
http://www.cs.tcd.ie/acourtny/phantom/phantom.html and
http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/antony/phantom/phantom.html. It
includes a Tk binding.
133. A home page describing Alpha, the Macintosh text editor with the Tcl
extensions interpreter, can be found at
http://www.cs.umd.edu/%7Ekeleher/alpha.html.
134. Conversion notes for updating code to work under both Tk 3.6 and
4.0 can be found at http://www.math.ucla.edu/%7Ejimc/tclconv.
135. Notes on the sessions from the 1995 Tcl/Tk workshop can be found at
http://www.cam-orl.co.uk/%7Efms/tcl95/tcl95.html.
136. At http://akumiitti.fi/%7Eptk/tkjdic.html one will find a
page describing a Kanji dictionary program.
TkJdic is a combined wa-ei-wa and kanji dictionary program in
Tcl/Tk. Its home page is http://www.hut.fi/%7Eptk/tkjdic.html.
137. The SIMEX framework is a C++ class framework for building
discreate event simulation models. More information can be found at
http://www.nmsr.labmed.umn.edu/.
138. Over the years, http://www.lwn.net/ has had a number of articles,
such as
http://www.lwn.net/2000/0928/devel.php3, covering news of the Tcl
community.
139. Dp in ET (DiET) is a patch to Embedded Tcl to support Tcl-DP.
The home reference can be found on
http://arch.hku.hk/people/matchy/work.html.
140. The Rothamsted Experimental Station has a software archive they
provide as a service to others. In
http://ftp.res.bbsrc.ac.uk/pub/tcl-tk/ you can find a few useful
Tcl scripts.
141. The home page http://huizen.dds.nl/%7Equintess/ provides
for Tako Schotanus a location for some patches to provide
dashed outlines for Tk canvas items , patches to make [incr tcl] work with
Tk 4, patches to make object tcl wish interpreters and patches
to make tkinspect work with incr tcl.
142. The Java folk have made a small informal unsupported effort to merge
Java and Tcl. See http://www.marimba.com/company/avh.html for
the details.
144. At ftp://tcl.activestate.com/pub/tcl/doc/portable-tk.ps and
ftp://tcl.activestate.com/pub/tcl/doc/portable-tk-slides.ps are a couple
of Postscript documents detailing the work being done concerning
portable Tk.
145. The Unix Review "Internet Notebook" columns of Rich Morin are now
available on line. See http://www.cfcl.com/tin/P/9304.html for
one about Tcl and Tk.
146. The Plume home page http://tcltk.anu.edu.au/ is
the beginnings of a guide to writing active message content using Tk 4,
Safe Tcl (stcl), and other pieces of technology.
See http://tcltk.anu.edu.au/tclweb/ for more details on writing
server side scripting, servlets, microscripting, and more.
147. W3CNT is a Tcl/Tk/GD based WWW access counter. You can find its
WWW page at http://www.digital.no/%7Eper/.
147. The WWW page for GDtcl, by
mailto:spencer@umich.edu (Spencer W. Thomas),
can be found at http://www-personal.umich.edu/%7Espencer/guraldi/gdtcl.html.
Note that the author has no plans on continuing support for this
extension, and is seeking someone else to take over work on it. Also
note that because of the legal situation with Unisys over GIF, even the
GD code on which gdtcl is based is in a development limbo.
148. TkReplay is a record and replay system for Tcl/Tk. See
http://www.cs.unm.edu/%7Ecrowley/recordReplay.html for details.
http://www.cs.unm.edu/%7Ecrowley/papers/replay.tk95.html is the
paper Charles presented at the 1995 Tcl/Tk Workshop.
149. The SunWorld online site at http://www.sunworld.com/
has published several general articles on Tcl. Do a search there to find
them all. A recent one was the one on TclBlend and Jacl
http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-1999/swol-11-jacl_p.html.
150. A WWW discussion board is available relating to tclwp8 topics. See
http://r8m70.cybercable.tm.fr/discuss1.nhtml.
151. With the appearance of MacOS X, there is likely to be more articles like
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2001/10/26/tcl_osx.html,
describing to people the benefits of using Tcl and Expect on this platform.
Also at this site there are articles like
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/04/21/multicast/index2.html
which discussing multicasting and Tcl,
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/d/770 which talks about Visual Tcl,
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/d/669 about Tcl on the Mac,
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/d/772, an article about XStick, as well
as a few other casual mentions.
152. SoftSmiths have a series of VHDL tools that use Tcl/Tk based interfaces.
See http://www.tmx.com.au/softsmiths/ for details.
153. The translator of the tcl-faq.part0? FAQs into Japanese now has
a WWW home at http://www.ifnet.or.jp/%7Etranslator/.
There have been reports that this URL may not be current.
154. Walnut Creek, publisher of CD-ROMs, has a WWW site where they
discuss their various products. If you look at
http://www.cdrom.com/titles/tcl.html you will see a description
of the October 1995 product, along with a pointer to
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/tcl/ where all the items from the CD-ROM
can be found. Walnut Creek is now shipping a CD-ROM whose contents were
obtained around the beginning of September, 1995.
Contact mailto:www@wcarchive.cdrom.com or mailto:info@cdrom.com
for more details.
155. WebReview did an article on Tcl - see
http://webreview.com/wr/pub/freeware/tcl.html.
156. Steven Majewski's Programming Language Critque pages has a section
for Tcl at http://minsky.med.virginia.edu/sdm7g/LangCrit/Tcl/.
157. A WWW page of Internet Protocols at
http://www.access.digex.net/%7Ejcollins/intpcols.html contains
a section pointing to libraries and applications for interfacing
between SNMP and Tcl/Tk.
158. The details of mailto:throopw@sheol.org Wayne Throop's setup
for doing creating and presentations using wish can be found at
http://sheol.org/throopw/presentation.html, along with a sample
of slides on Tcl/Tk. Other pages of interest from Wayne are the home
pages for tkdraw http://sheol.org/throopw/tkdraw.html,
very simple cross reference viewer http://sheol.org/throopw/vxref.html,
simple text editor http://sheol.org/throopw/xe.html,
and map viewer http://sheol.org/throopw/xnearest.html.
159. The paper "Experience with Tcl/Tk for Scientific and Engineering
Visualization" by BWK can be found at
http://inferno.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/bwk/
or
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/bwk/workshop.ps.gz
(gzipped Postcript (152 kB)).
At http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/bwk/interps/pap.html is
a paper covering performance.
160. A brave attempt at creating a master table of version compatibilities
has been undertaken at http://www.net-quest.com/%7Eivler/tcl/tcltab.html.
161. The Eolas group, holder of a pending patent on Web applets, has
described in a recent Dr. Dobbs Journal and on
http://www.eolas.com/eolas/webrouse/webwish.htm the idea of making
a WWW browser which uses Safe Tcl/Tk as the language for applets.
162. A site called "Coop: Computer Supported Cooperative Work" has
built a WWW page at http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/%7Efta/coop.html
focusing on various software environments for performing one's work
in concert with other users. A number of pointers to other Tcl
efforts, as well as other languages, can be found on this page.
163. The TACOMA project http://www.cs.uit.no/DOS/Tacoma/,
which focuses on operating system support for software agents, uses Tcl
and Tk for agents. One of their applications is called StormCast,
which is a distributed weather prediction software, uses Tcl agents to
distribute across remote sensing sites.
164. AgentTCL http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Eagent/ is a project
to create a transportable agent system.
165. Mobile Service Agents http://www.ecrc.de/research/dc/msa/ is
a project which uses Tcl/Tk for the user interface in a system for accessing
up to the minute information, resources and services using the Internet.
166. MOREplus is a WWW cataloging and database tool which uses Tcl based
processes in its task. See http://rbse.mountain.net/MOREplus/ for
more details. Note that http://rbse.mountain.net/ is the
Cranberry Square Software Market library of freely distributable software.
They basically organize pointers using a variety of methods of searching.
They have a few Tcl related packages listed, but most of the listings
are old.
167. Network Cybernetics Corporation http://www.ncc.com/
has released a CD-ROM called Web Wrangler 1 which contains tools for those
folk responsible for creation and maintenance of WWW sites. Lots of tools
for CGI programming, etc. including tools for using Tcl.
168. TipTop Software http://www.tiptop.com/ is the home for information
on ObjectiveTcl.
169. Eric Johnson's WWW pages contain an HTML version of his Windows
FAQ at http://www.pconline.com/%7Eerc/tclwin.htm as well as
an intro to Tcl/Tk http://www.pconline.com/%7Eerc/tcl.htm
and a page related to his new Tcl/Tk book
http://www.pconline.com/%7Eerc/tclbook.htm. This book comes
with a CD-ROM which has a number of Tcl and Tk related software items
on it. Eric also has a page with a tutorial for the Tk 4.1 grid
command located at http://www.pconline.com/%7Eerc/grid.htm.
Eric has a few examples of using Perl/Tk at
http://www.pconline.com/%7Eerc/perltk.htm
170. A page describing a new extended Tk text widget for Tk and Perl/Tk
can be found at
ftp://ftp.math.ohio-state.edu/pub/users/ilya/etext/etext.html.
171. The AGOCG Tcl/Tk tutorial is available at
http://www.dci.clrc.ac.uk/Publications/Cookbook/. It is a
document describing the use of Tcl 7.6 and Tk 4.0 across platforms.
Unfortunately, the original intention of this being a living document
never was fulfilled. The source code examples files are available from
http://www.dci.clrc.ac.uk/Publications/Cookbook/code/. The Cookbook
is partly sponsored by the UK Advisory On Computer Graphics. It is aimed
at novice window-based interactive application developers and newcomers
to Tcl/Tk.
172. For a series of Tcl examples of how to do things which are not necessarily
obvious, see http://www.kencorey.com/tcl/answers.html .
173. A very interesting resource is the People Helping One Another Know Stuff
(PHOAKS) WWW site. At
http://weblab.research.att.com/phoaks/comp/lang/tcl/ is the
page for news:comp.lang.tcl. The idea is that as folks on the
newsgroup refer to various web resources, they are indexed by software
running at this site and added to the page. By going to the above page,
one gets to look at a ranked series of favorite web pages.
174. Bruce Gingery mailto:bgingery@gtcs.com has an article that
compares Tcl/Tk, Perl/Tk, and Python/Tk to early 1980's BASIC using
a simple example at
http://home.gtcs.com/%7Ebruce/old_pages/articles/BASIC_today/.
175. The Tcl CGI home page is located at
http://ruulst.let.ruu.nl:2000/tcl-cgi.html. It describes a small
package which enables Tcl programmers to write CGI scripts which can
handle the POST method.
176. The Visual Developer online archive at http://developer.earthweb.com/visualdev/
discusses various tips on how to write GUI applications, including the use
of Perl/Tk.
177. The PennWyndow WWW page is research being done using Tcl/Tk to
supervise heterogeneous applications, coordinating different utilities.
See http://www.med.upenn.edu/%7Ebiocbiop/local_pages/lewis_lab/research/pennw.html for details.
178. A Tcl/Tk and Expect tutorial paper by
mailto:will@Starbase.NeoSoft.com can be found at
ftp://ftp.lgc.com/landmark/users/papers/WMorse/wmorse.tcltk.
179. The Inferno home page at http://inferno.bell-labs.com/inferno/
is a good place to read about the new Limbo programming language, which uses
a Tk package for windowing. The Tk used however was written from scratch
in Limbo.
180. At http://www.stsci.edu/public/sst/rps2/rps2-paper.html an
interesting paper resides regarding an interactive tool using
incr tcl/incr tk to aid in proposal preparation for the Hubble Space Telescope.
181. Yet another Tcl/Tk resource site can be found at
http://www.hubat.com/servlets/search?cmd=b&db=hubat&concept=3.14.23.
182. Benchmarks of Tcl and other scripting languages by BWK and Chris Van Wyk
can be found at http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/bwk/interps/pap.html.
183. Over the years, http://www.lwn.net/ has had a number of articles,
such as
http://www.lwn.net/2000/0928/devel.php3, covering news of the Tcl
community.
185. Text versions of articles from ;Login: regarding Tcl can be found at
http://reality.sgi.com/employees/jes/home.html.
186. The article "Using Active Server Pages with Microsoft Internet
Information Server 3.0", located at
http://www.microsoft.com/iis/Evaluating/Guides/Whitepapers/aspwp.exe,
indicates that Microsoft will be supporting Tcl plugins for their server.
187. A French tutorial on Tcl can be found at
http://www.loria.fr/moyens-info/logiciels/tcltk/.
188. At http://www.skillshare.com/skillshare/dr/tcl/reuse/wmakr.html
is a paper titled "Reusable Procedures For Generating and Modifying Tk Widget"
which describes using the standard Tcl and Tk to build reusable widget
makers or fixers, along with procedures for writing one's own similar
routines. You should find other useful Tcl help at this same site.
189. Notes from the Tcl 95 Workshop can be found at
ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/devel/workshop/1995/tcl95-workshop-notes.tar.gz.
The USENIX organization, who sponsors the workshops, no longer permits
the papers making up the proceedings to be made available as a group. If
you are a USENIX member, you can get access to some electronic copy thru
http://www.usenix.org/.
190. http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_tcl_tk.html is a page
collecting many URLs relating to the Tcl community and Object Oriented
programming.
191. A paper discussing quick development languages (detailing both perl and
Tcl) for Astronomy, written by mailto:kuiper@jpl.nasa.gov
and dated July 31, 1995, can be found at
http://dsnra.jpl.nasa.gov/QuickTool.html.
192. softWorks has a WWW page at http://members.ping.at/risc/. They
sell several Tcl based programs for developing software.
193. Awaiting info on DarkStar
194. A WWW page for information on Tcl/Tk and GUI style guides,
writtin in both English and German, can be found at
http://ls4-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/luebeck/pg279/bibInfos.html.
195. The page at http://www.aa.net/%7Ehedgehog/tcl.htm contains
info learned as the author writes his Tk based IRC client. There is
at least a note on how to hook into a Windows application event loop
here.
196. A paper on using Tk as a remote GUI front end for fourth generation
database applications, by Volker Schubert mailto:leo@bj-ig.de
can be found at http://www.bj-ig.de/remotegui/remotegui.html.
197. Frank Pilhofer mailto:fp@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de has
a web page at http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/%7Efp/Tcl/ which points
to a document on building Tcl extensions from C++ code,
a sample CGI script to browse RFCs, as well as pointers to various Tcl
Tk projects.
198. At http://www.osc.edu/PhAROh/T-Y-SA.html, one finds a discussion
of a supercomputer project. The software in this project, according to
http://www.osc.edu/PhAROh/ReportR-28.html, uses a Tcl/Tk interface
for its parameter input.
199. At http://www.w3j.com/ you find the archives of the WWW Journal,
a publication by O'Reilly's which covers the world of the Web. A number
of articles have been published relating to Tcl ; use their search
engine to find the currently available ones.
200. Thomas Sicheritz mailto:thomas@evolution.bmc.uu.se has a page of Tcl
references at http://evolution.bmc.uu.se/%7Ethomas/tcl/tcl.html
which cover quite a wide spectrum of interests.
201. Joe Konstan's paper on OAT from the 1997 workshop can be found at
http://www.cs.umn.edu/%7Esafonov/tcl97/oat-tcl97.html.
202. The authority WWW site for this set of FAQs is, as mentioned at
the top of these files, http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-FAQ/.
A search engine interface to all USENET FAQs is available at
http://www.faqs.org/.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/by-newsgroup/comp/comp.lang.tcl.announce.html
can be found there.
Other places to find USENET FAQs on the WWW include
http://www.cs.ruu.nl/cgi-bin/faqwais
http://www.intac.com/FAQ.html
http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/internet/news/faq/by_group.index.html
http://www.ucsalf.ac.uk/cgibin/faqsearch.
FTP access to the FAQs can be found at ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/ and
ftp://ftp.faqs.org/faqs/.
203. Stefan Hornburg mailto:racke@gundel.han.de has written the
document "Tcl and Friends" http://www.han.de/%7Eracke/taf.html.
204. ScriptSearch is a free index of Web related development tools.
They hope to add pointers to Tcl and Tk scripting tools.
See http://www.scriptsearch.com/ for what they have had submitted
to date.
205. Byte Magazine has had a few articles specifically about Tcl over the
years, as well as references in a number of others. See for instance
http://www.byte.com/art/9602/sec11/art1.htm
http://www.byte.com/art/9704/sec5/art5.htm
and if you search at their site, you will also find references relating
to products reviewed which use Tcl.
206. A new web site about Tcl/Tk is available in Spanish. See
http://www.pika.net/tcltk/, which includes introductory material,
examples and a forum where any question, suggestion or commentary is welcome.
Contact Alejandro Sualdea mailto:asualdea@pika.net for more details.
207. The python community http://www.python.org/ uses bindings
to Tcl/Tk to obtain one of its GUI interfaces. See a variety of
pages at this site for details. See
http://www.python.org/python/Comparisons.html for a Python
biased comparison between Python and Tcl.
208. http://www.math.jyu.fi/cgi-bin/jykp/main.exp is an example of
a WWW service provided using Expect. It is a WWW based user interface
to the Virginia Tech Library System, using Expect and telnet.
209. http://www.javaworld.com/ is an online magazine which has
published several articles relating to Tcl. For instance,
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-1998/jw-02-infoworld.javabeans.html
and http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-1997/jw-12-jacl.html
are articles about Jacl.
210. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Eagent/ is the site containing
information on software agents written in tcl.
211. http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/%7Ekhan/software/tcl/ is an
archive of a variety of Windows related patched Tcl and Tk related
extensions and applications.
212. At http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/%7Ejohnr/code/obstcl/
John Reekie mailto:johnr@kahn.eecs.berkeley.edu did some comparisons
of STERNO, Matt Newman's tcl++ 1.0 and obstcl, a small object system package
John wrote.
213. At http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/%7Efellowsd/, Donal Fellows
has a number of useful Tcl routines and information regarding Tcl, including
a report on his analysis of Tcl's year 2000 readiness. See
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/%7Efellowsd/tcl/future.html for some notes
on a discussion with Paul Duffin on future Tcl needs.
214. At http://www.doitnow.com/%7Eiliad/Tcl/tea/tea_faq.html the
author of Tea provides a comparison between Tea and incr tcl.
215. See http://www.cbl.ncsu.edu/publications/#1995-TR@CBL-03 for
a paper on REUBEN, a reusable environment driven by benchmakring applications,
by K. Kozminski, B. Duewer, H. Lavana, A. Khetawat, and F. Brglez.
216. See http://mini.net/jcw/tclflow.html for one man's view of
what's needed for Tcl to help the user.
217. A short Tcl & Tk tutorial by Alex Samonte can be found at
http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/%7Edbutler/tutorials/winter96/tcl/.
218. A (biased, as most such things are) comparison of perl versus Tcl
by Tom Christiansen can be found at
http://language.perl.com/versus/tcl-discussion.html and another one by
Aaron Sherman at
http://language.perl.com/versus/asherman-on-tcl.html.
So that you know, Tom did this type of thing for a variety of languages,
including Perl. No need to flame him because the list is based
on old versions of Tcl, etc.
219. Frank Stajano's paper at the 1998 Python conference had some
useful insights into why he thinks Python's extensions are evolving
faster and are easier to work with than Tcl's:
http://www.orl.co.uk/%7Efms/ipc7/tr-1998-9.html.
220. The Developer.com site did a profile on John Ousterhout at
http://www.developer.com/journal/profiles/060398_ouster.html. There
are a couple of articles on Jacl, as well as a few other Tcl references
at this web site. They have created a Tcl directory at
http://www.developer.com/directories/pages/dir.tcl.html in yet another
attempt to categorize Tcl offerings.
See http://www.developer.com/reference/library/1575211025/ch29.htm
for a longer article on using Tcl with Java.
221. Steve Uhler's 1996 Tcl workshop presentation slides on the search for
the perfect megawidget can be found at http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/tcl96/full_papers/uhler/.
222. Linux Today http://linuxtoday.com/ , an ezine covering Linux news,
occasionally includes the Tcl-URL information, as well as other topics
near and dear to Tcl fans.
223. The Tcl/Tk Consortium created a CD-ROM in 1998. It was a Tcl 7.6 based
distribution, containing binaries for many different systems.
The CD-ROM can be purchased by an
individual via Linux Central http://www.linuxcentral.com/.
224. See http://www.purl.org/NET/Tcl-Welcome for
information regarding news:comp.lang.tcl that is maintained by
mailto:andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net. Also at Andreas's home page are
pointers to a variety of Tcl related software packages he has developed
and is in the process of developing.
225. At http://www.leo.org/pub/comp/programming/languages/script/tcl/
is yet another attempt to make the vast tcl resources available to
users.
226. Information about the use of Tcl and [incr Tcl] during prototyping
of the Mars PathFinder project can be found at
ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/misc/Tcl_on_Pathfinder/ .
227. OneSeek/Developer is a new search/navigation site which makes it easy
for developers to find technical info on the WWW. Find it at
http://www.oneseek.com/dev/. A Tcl area is available on the site.
228. Stoian Jekov mailto:sto@mbox.eda.bg has created a Tcl/Tk related
site at http://www.eda.bg/%7Esto/tcltk.htm.
Issue 1 can be found at
http://www.eda.bg/%7Esto/journal/issue1/iss1-1.htm.
229. A Yahoo club for discussions regarding Tcl and Tk can be found at
http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/tclandrelatedextensions. Another one
can be found at http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/tcl.
230. A PlanetAll forum has been created for Tcl/Tk - see
http://members.planetall.com/groups/main.asp?page=groupinformation.asp&groupid=97567
for details.
231. mIRC USA is a site dedicated to IRC! It offers scripts, addons,
the latest information... as well as Eggdrop, compiling help, and the
latest TCL files. They also offer the latest security patches to prevent
nukes, and much much more! Find it at http://www.mircusa.com/.
This site is not officially connected with the Eggdrop development team.
232. ComputingSite http://www.computingsite.com/ is a search engine
covering more than 300 different computing related 'channels', including Tcl.
233. a LUSENET web forum is available at
http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a.tcl?topic=Tool%20Command%20Language%20%28Tcl%29
for trying out this technology.
234. The National Library of Singapore has recently launched the
NL.Line. This is a WWW interface to its library and information services.
This WWW interface uses Perl and Tcl to gateway to its McDonald Douglas
mainframe. See http://www.livewire.ncb.gov.sg/library/main.html
for the WWW interface.
235. A series of papers and slides regarding Tcl programming, written in
German, can be found at http://www.kfa-juelich.de/zam/docs/Folien.html.
236. A CGI resource called http://www.cgi-resources.com/ is available,
however it has only a few Tcl related resources at this time.
237. A proposal for Super/Simple/Small/Safe Tcl can be found at
http://www.demailly.com/%7Edl/stcl.html.
238. There are ptk (perl/Tk) web page pointers, patches, tutorial
articles, and other tips at http://www.lehigh.edu/sol0/ptk.
239. See the OOMMF project at http://math.nist.gov/oommf/. They use
C++ and tcl.
240. Yet another attempt to organize internet resources:
http://www.newhoo.com/Computers/Programming_Languages/Tcl/.
http://www.newhoo.com/Computers/Software/Internet/Programming/Tcl/
241. http://www.rpragana.net/ is a site where you can
find Adventures in Linux Programming. This includes "weekly" tips and
tricks about Tcl/Tk programming.
242. An online forum to discuss XiRCON can be found at
http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/xircon.
243. The Brighton University Resource Kit for Students (BURKS) project
is a non-profile set of 2 CD-ROMs available in the UK. It provides around
1.1 gigabyte of material including compilers, interpreters, tutorials, and
reference materials for over 20 programming languages, along with a copy
of the free online dictionary of computing, a linux distribution, a
set of linux manuals, FAQs, tutorials, internet specfiications, and a
selection of MS-DOS and Windows software. The CD-ROMs include Tcl/Tk 8.0
for Windows, Tcl 7.3 for MS-DOS, tutorials, FAQs, and the Tcl 8 manual pages.
The entire collection is available online at http://burks.bton.ac.uk/.
Tcl/Tk-related material is at http://burks.bton.ac.uk/burks/language/tcl/.
Ordering information (including shipping costs to various destinations)
is also available online (at http://burks.bton.ac.uk/ordering.htm).
244. A web page for coordinating Tcl Consultants available for work can
be found at http://www.hwaci.com/tclconsultants/.
If you want to be added to this page, please send e-mail to
mailto:tclconsult@hwaci.com.
245. The bioinformatic part of GNOMICS - the small genome sequencing group -
was written 99% in Tcl/Tk. See the article on
http://www.nature.com/cgi-bin/wbsp-article.cgi?art=396133A0&artlist=36482723.art:396133AO:392015AO:396109A0:396133A0:392015A0:392037A0:390364A0&def=36476ab2.def&deflist=36352b7b.def:3632fd17.def:362b44dd.def:362171c2.def:36216c9c.def:361a3df1.def:360fca6d.def:
and notice figures 1 and 2 - which are Tk canvas dumps.
246. Tcl-Wear Chronology is a link at
http://www.nyx.net/%7Etpoindex/tcl.html which attempts to detail
the tee shirts, toys, and specialty items designed to advertise Tcl.
247. See http://www.ice.ru/%7Evitus/thoughts/tcl_desktop.html
by Victor Wagner mailto:vitus@wagner.rinet.ru, which discusses
a Tcl based desktop environment.
248. Scott McCrickard mailto:mccricks@cc.gatech.edu has the
notes from a human factors class he taught on the WWW at
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/cs4753_98_winter/lectures/jan20.html.
He used Tcl as the programming language for the lab work.
249. Tcl/Tk is taught as a part of a X systems Admin class at the
Geoscience Technology Training Center, at North Harris College
http://wwwnhc.nhmccd.edu/public/gttc/.
250. At http://www.cs.tamu.edu/people/mmiller/tcl/ is a Tcl 8.0
tutorial based on John Ousterhout's original tutorials, as well as Tcl UDP
and a disk usage application. The creator also has some online doc for
Tcl UPD and Tcl channels at
http://www.cs.tamu.edu/people/mmiller/tcl/channel.html
251. At http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/%7Epehrens/genericAPItcl.html is
the description of the API for a Laser Interferometer Gravitational Observatory
Data Analysis System.
252. At http://www.codearchive.com/ is a source code archive for
Tcl applications.
253. A paper on an extended version of the MIT otcl object extension
is available at http://nestroy.wi-inf.uni-essen.de/xotcl/.
At least two papers have been published. XOTcl (Extended OTcl,
pronounced exotickle) is a value added replacement of MIT's OTcl. It is
an object-oriented scripting language with several new functionalities
aiming at the management of complexity, like Per-Object Mixins, Filters,
Nested Classes, Dynamic Object Aggregations, Metadata, Assertions.
254. The Freshmeat web site - which is a useful site to monitor for
new software releases of all sorts has a section for Tcl extensions.
See http://freshmeat.net/appindex/development/tcl-extensions.html.
The general appindex also lists a number of applications if you search
for "tcl". Searching for Tk is a bit less useful because of matching
strings like GTk.
255. The Vignette StoryServer provides a Tcl interface. See
http://www.vignette.com/ ,
http://news.vignette.com/vignette.storyserver.template-lang
or http://news.vignette.com/vignette.misc for more information.
Also, newsgroups for Vignette can be found at
nntp://news.vignette.com/vignette.storyserver.template-lang
nntp://news.vignette.com/vignette.storyserver.misc.
256. The http://www.ccil.org/jargon Jargon site has as its topic
the description of numerous computer jargon/terms. While not Tcl specific,
many people find it useful to explain what particular terms being used mean.
257. See an introduction to tcl at
http://www.linuxhq.com/lg/issue01to08/lg_issue6.html#tcltk.
258. See http://pfrostie.freeservers.com/cad-tastrafy/
and mirrored at http://www.dragon-designs.net/%7Ecad-tastrafy/
for a list of CAD related applications - some of which are in Tcl/Tk.
259. The AI Mind (Public Domain Artifical Intelligence) web site
has a Tcl related page at http://mind.sourceforge.net/tcl.html .
260. Ray Masters mailto:masters@bleriot.cac.psu.edu pointed out
to me http://www.geog.psu.edu/geovista/ijgis.htm as a location from
which one could find information about developing custom interactors for
DX using the standard DXLink facilities.
261. A Tcl community collaboration effort called the Tcler's Wiki is
available at http://purl.org/tcl/wiki/. At this site
you can find pages available to ask Tcl questions, document differences
between recent versions of Tcl and Tk, discuss Tcl books, document favorite
Tcl tricks, tips on Tcl performance, tutorials on various tcl topics, etc.
A public forum to calmly and rationally discuss the benefits of Tcl usage
can be found http://purl.org/tcl/wiki/PosiTcl/.
Many, many other pages are available. One interesting use is the various
pages full of Tcl and Tk code - code too small in and of itself to be
'packaged' up for general download, but the right size to scrall on the
bulletin board and be available for use (or comment and correction!).
There are too many pages at the Wiki to try to document them all. Some
pages are discussion only pages. Some are documentation pages - describing
how Tcl works. Some are tutorial - showing how to use Tcl to solve some
kinds of problems. Some are actually code - providing working examples of
solving all sorts of problems. Some are pointer pages, containing a variety
of links to other resources.
262. Jeff Gosnell mailto:machtyn@earthlink.net has
announced a number of Tcl related items at
http://members.xoom.com/Machtyn/, including a Tclet, a chat room at
http://members.xoom.com/Machtyn/chats/2.html, etc. However,
I've not been able to get thru to the site (I suspect it is very busy).
263. A discussion regarding O'Reilly's first Perl/Tk book can be found at
http://x10.dejanews.com/viewthread.xp?AN=462064441&search=thread&svcclass=dnserver&ST=PS&CONTEXT=923314812.1851129930&HIT_CONTEXT=923314812.1851129930&HIT_NUM=0&recnum=%3c37052BA7.5B06BE7E@earthlink.net%3e%231/1&frpage=getdoc.xp&back=clarinet.
264. A collection of Tcl web resources can be found at
http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/Tcl-Tk/.
265. An experiment has begun at http://www.dejanews.com/%7Etcl_app_users/
to provide a place where users of Tcl applications can ask questions.
266. The Linux Journal published an interview with John Ousterhout in
April of 1999. See http://www.linuxjournal.com/issue60/ for
details. This journal has carried other articles - do a search at the
site for pointers to various articles.
267. A web page has been constructed with pointers to the papers and slides
from the First European Tcl/Tk User meeting, held in June, 2000. See
http://www.tu-harburg.de/skf/tcltk/ for details.
268. I recently noticed that http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/ has a relatively
nice interface to RFCs. Using that, one can see a number (more than a dozen
when this entry was added to my FAQ) of RFCs which contain some reference to
Tcl. Most, however, are in passing references to Tcl as one of several
languages which could be used for scripting.
269. http://webopedia.internet.com/TERM/T/Tcl.html is a Web
encyclopedia entry for Tcl.
270. http://www.multimania.com/droche/article_tcl/article.html
is an article in French, written for the French Linux magazine
http://www.wsf.fr/pearl/linux/linuxmag.htm.
271. Information about writing Tcl thread safe apps on Windows NT can
be found at
http://www.maui.net/%7Edavygrvy/tomahawk/irc_engine_oline.html.
272. C.K. Hung taught a Tcl/Tk course. Information on this course can
be found at http://www.cyut.edu.tw/%7Eckhung/olbook/tcltk/.
273. http://bseen.tclslave.net/webring.html lists a number of
resources for Eggdrop Tcl programmers.
274. The WebTechniques http://www.webtechniques.com magazine
continues to publish articles on Tcl and Tk on occasion. See
the 1997 article on the Tcl Plugin
http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/1997/12/junk/
the 1999 issue for Steve Ball's article on Scripting XML with Tcl,
http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/1999/10/junk/
the 2000 article on Web agents written in Tcl/Tk
http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2000/03/schrenk/,
and many more - more than 45 hits on Tcl are found.
275. Delphi promotes free use of their online forum communities - there
are a few that appear to focus on Tcl:
http://www.delphi.com/pa-109492/
http://www.delphi.com/pa-97567/
http://www.delphi.com/eggdrop/
276. Ioi Lam mailto:ioilam@my-deja.com has created a WWW page covering
Chinese programming in Tcl. See http://zhongwen.htmlplanet.com/.
277. The source for Perl information http://www.perl.com/ has
began a Perl/Tk tutorial at:
http://www.perl.com/pub/1999/10/perltk/
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/01/09/perltk.html
278. A paper on embedding Tcl, Perl or Python can be found
http://www.morrisland.com/%7Emitchell/.
279. A page discussing how to use Turkish letters with Tcl/Tk 8.2 can
be found at http://home/germany.net/100/170561/turkbind.html.
It is written in English and German.
280. The http://photo.net/ site is filled with interesting information
for the Tcl programmer. For instance, http://photo.net/sql/ appears
to be a working draft of a book initially called "SQL for Web Nerds".
It is a tutorial on SQL, using the AOLserver as a base and Tcl as the
programming language. There are other items such as
http://photo.net/wtr/dead-trees/, which is the web version of the
book "Database Backed Web Sites". Then there is the ArsDigita Community
System, a database driven web forum.
281. SuSE (a Linux distribution created by a German group - see
http://www.suse.com/), uses Tcl/Tk in at least one, and possibly more,
of their configuration tools. The one that has been reported using Tcl/Tk
is SaX, the advanced X configuration tool, used to configure xfree86.
282. Chengye Mao mailto:chengye.geo@yahoo.com has a web page
which discusses building combined widgets (aka mega widgets) in pure Tcl
at http://www.geocities.com/%7Echengye/comb.html.
283. The http://www.edu4kids.com/ web site has various drill games,
all of which are written in Tcl.
284. George P. Staplin mailto:GeorgePS@XMission.com has written some
tutorials on how he uses movies, audio, images and PNG cursors with
Tcl/Tk in a game he is writing. See
http://www.xmission.com/%7Egeorgeps/multimedia.html,
http://www.xmission.com/%7Egeorgeps/Xlib_TclTk.html about
using XLib ith Tcl/Tk from C,
http://www.xmission.com/%7Egeorgeps/Extending_TclTk.html about
extending Tcl and Tk.
285. One ICQ Active List (ICQ is an interactive chat facility - see
http://www.icq.com/ for more details) that's available
24 hours/7 days a week for discussions of TCL, Tk, and C is (AL# 56087677).
Contact Eric Evans mailto:ciresnave@yahoo.com if you have questions
about this list.
286. One source for perl/Tk examples is
http://sun.uniag.sk/%7Ebillik/Programming/Perl/Tk/.
287. The Linux Gazette occasionally covers Tcl related topics, such as
the article http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue49/pramode.html
"Using SWIG to interface scripting languages with C/C++".
288. CNET's Help.com has a section for people to ask for help. See
http://www.help.com/cat/2/259/278/index.html?tag=st.hp.cat.ont.
289. A new web forum resource is available for Tcl/Tk programmers at
http://www.devcritic.com/sites/Tcl-Tk/.
290. Information about the use of Tcl and [incr Tcl] during prototyping
of the Mars PathFinder project can be found at
ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/misc/Tcl_on_Pathfinder/ .
291. A document descripting how to embed a Tcl interpreter in a
Java program has been provided at
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/%7Ejwu/Using_Tcl_in_Java.html.
It mainly describes the interaction between a multi-threaded
Java program and an event driven single threaded Tcl interpreter.
292. Information on building and using Tcl/Tk on IRIX 6.x can be found in
the docs at ftp://ftp.paradigmsim.com/pub/outgoing/vggifts/vgtcl34irix/.
293. Technical report evaluating the properties of 80 different implementations
of the same program in 7 different programming langauges (C, C++, Java, Perl,
Python, Rexx, and Tcl). See
http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de/%7Eprechelt/Biblio/#jccpprtTR
Erann Gat did a study of Lisp on the same problem. You can find his work at
http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/public/home/gat/lisp-study.html and you can
see another Lisp solution at http://www.norvig.com/java-lisp.html
294. See http://www.tek-tips.com/gthreadminder.cfm/lev2/4/lev3/32/pid/287
for a Tcl/Tk Forum run at the Tek-Tips web site.
295. See http://www-cad.eecs.berkeley.edu/%7Epinhong/scriptEDA/ for
a page dedicated to linking various scripting languages - include Tcl - to
any freely available EDA tools.
296. The Tcl community initiated a new support mechanism called the
Tcl Core Team (TCT). See http://www.tcl.tk/community/coreteam/
for details. Send email to mailto:tclcore@tcl.activestate.com.
See the URL just mentioned for the Tcl Improvement Proposal - a mechanism
for describing new features proposed to be added to Tcl.
297. At http://www.cyrebels.org/, the webmaster indicates that
he is looking for code snippets, documentation, tutorials and articles
for Tcl.
298. Not surprizingly, if you search the http://www.ieee.org/ site
you will find a references to Tcl and the work at creating Tcl bindings for
the IEEE work on CBT .
299. The eMagazine http://www.linuxmonth.com/ is covering Tcl,
including interviews with John Ousterhour, a series on persisting Tcl
data in text files, etc.
300. http://www.mapfree.com/sbf/tcl/scripts.html is a page pointing
to a variety of useful tcl applications, extensions, etc.
301. http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/November2000/article174.shtml
is a page with pointers to translations (in English, French, Nederlands,
Russian and Turkish) of an introduction to Tk article.
302. ZDNet's Developer web site has a section called CGI/Perl/TCL
http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/filters/0,9429,2133218,00.html, where
Cameron Laird has written several articles about writing CGI using Tcl.
303. Jeff Hobbs and Andreas Kupries work for ActiveState and promise to
provide support for ActiveTcl. Their
http://www.ActiveState.com/Initiatives/Tcl.html plans for Tcl
are available now online. They now offer ActiveTcl (see "part4") as
well as enterprise maintenance support, etc. They have also added a
section on Tcl mailing lists, with archives for a number of popular lists
at http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Tcl/Mail.
At http://aspn.ActiveState.com/ASPN/Tcl/Reference/ is a great
online Tcl reference section, with links to papers from the Tcl'2002
US and European conferences as well as other resources.
304. A Yahoo! WebRing for Tcl exists at
http://nav.webring.yahoo.com/hub?ring=eggdrop&list. The focus is
for Eggdrop bots and scripts.
305. Linux Today http://linuxtoday.com/ , an ezine covering Linux news,
occasionally includes the Tcl-URL information, as well as other topics
near and dear to Tcl fans.
306. The Church of the Swimming Elephant http://www.cotse.com/
is a reference site for computer professionals. It contains many pages
of info on Tcl, from manual pages, to reference guides to tutorials on
Expect and more.
307. Mark Harrison has provided a series of useful information regarding
the use of the Tcl msgcat functionality in the form of FrameMaker and
PDF files. See http://www.markharrison.net/tcl-i18n/.
308. Linux Guruz http://www.linuxguruz.com/ has a few tutorials
related to Tcl, and are open to people submitting more.
309. The Perl Montly website / ezine http://www.perlmonth.com/
has articles on perl/Tk.
310. A series of articles and sample programs covering Perl/Tk , including
GUI programming can, accessing databases, etc., written by
Philip Yuson mailto:pyuson@yahoo.com, be found at
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/perl .
311. http://www.mainmatter.com/ has a variety of resources, including
a search engine for a Linux FAQ, lots of links to other useful sites,
Unix 'lifesaving' tips, and lots of great Perl/Tk software.
312. Doug Bagley has created a general language performance comparison
web site at http://www.bagley.org/%7Edoug/shoot/ which provides
a look at how Tcl and a number of other languages compare. Hopefully
someone in the Tcl community takes on the task of letting Doug know
when new releases of Tcl appear for reappraisal.
313. A WWW site in French that covers Tcl/Tk can be found at
http://www.larochelle-innovation.com/tcltk. There is no
intent on translating the site into English - they recommend using
software such as http://www.systransoft.com/.
314. See http://hotdispatch.com/tcl/ for a web site where one can
work with users to help them out with problems and perhaps earn a bit
of money as a result.
315. ActiveState has begun offering spport of various kinds for Tcl
users. See http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Tcl
for information about a Tcl cookbook of code and comments.
316. See http://www.hwaci.com/sw/mktclapp/win32-compile.html
for information about cross compiling code from one platform to another.
317. Dr. Dobb's Journal is a technical monthly which has covered Tcl, Tk,
and related topics for years. For instance, see:
http://www.ddj.com/articles/2001/0105/0105toc.htm
for an article discussing the compilation of Perl/Tk scripts.
318. Notes on upvar/uplevel guidelines can be found at
http://dqd.com/%7Emayoff/notes/tcl/upvar.html.
319. See http://tcltk.free.fr/ for a FAQ like web site which
uses various categories.
320. See http://purl.org/tcl/wiki/1588.html for a collabrative effort
to advertise jobs and resources available relating to Tcl.
321. See http://users.pandora.be/koen.vandamme1/papers/tcl_objects/_index.htm
for a white paper dealing with Objects in Tcl and
http://users.pandora.be/koen.vandamme1/papers/tcl_fileformats/_index.htm
for a white paper dealing with data file formats for Tcl scripts.
322. See http://freealter.com/fr/ProjetsLibres/tcltk/ for a one
page discussion of Tcl/Tk (in French).
323. http://www.memoware.com/cgi-bin/mwsearch.cgi?Any=tcl searches
the web site and displays to you several Tcl related documents
which can be downloaded into your Palm Pilot. There's also a couple of
weird hits that come up as a result of this search as well - feel free
to ignore those...
324. http://tcl.apache.org/presentations/ is an introduction to
Tcl/Tk created by mailto:davidw@dedasys.com David N. Welton .
It requires a stylesheet compliant web browser.
325. The results of the Third European Tcl/Tk user meeting can be found
at http://www.t-ide.com/tcl2002e.html .
326. Tcl and Tk tutorals by mailto:binnyva@hotmail.com Binny Abraham
can be found at http://www.geocities.com/binnyva/code/tcl/tutorial/.
327. A New Perl/Tk tutoral by mailto:binnyva@hotmail.com Binny Abraham
can be found at
http://www.geocities.com/binnyva/code/perl/perl_tk_tutorial/.
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From: FAQ General information
Subject: -VIII- Are there any mailing lists covering topics related to Tcl/Tk?
There are quite a number of mailing lists which cover topics
relating to the Tcl community. As you begin one, if you will send
me information relating to the mailing list, I will add it below.
o ActiveTcl
This mailing list discusses the issues of users of ActiveState's
ActiveTcl product. See http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/
for subscription information.
o ActiveX for Tcl
This mailing list discusses the isses in integrating Tcl and ActiveX.
To subscribe, send email with the subject of "subscribe" to
mailto:activex-request@tcltk.com
An archive of this mailing list appears to be available at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tclactivex/
o Alpha-D
Mailing list for the Tcl developers relating to the Macintosh
text editor Alpha.
To subscribe, send to
mailto:listserv@listserv.syr.edu
a line of text of the format
subscribe ALPHA-D your name
(where you replace "your name" with your own name).
To unsubscribe from this list send the text:
unsubscribe ALPHA-D
in the body of the message to
mailto:listserv@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Human administrator: ALPHA-D-request AT LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Replace "AT" with @. This is to protect this list owner address
from spammers.
This list appears to be moving to http://www.topica.com/.
o aolserver mailing lists
Mailing lists relating to AOLserver, which can use Tcl as
an extension language).
AOLSERVER is an unmoderated open discussion list.
If you want to subscribe or change your subscription settings,
visit http://listserv.aol.com/ for detailed instructions or
go to
http://listserv.aol.com/archives/aolserver.html
o BLT mailing list
BLT is a Tk widget set with a variety of useful features.
A mailing list for BLT developers has been created for the discussion
of BLT development issues. It may be a useful forum for those who are
currently working on BLT (developing, maintaining, bug fixing, etc).
If you are interested, please subscribe.
To subscribe to the blt-dev mailing list, send mail to
mailto:majordomo@dscpl.com.au
with the following in the body of the message:
subscribe blt-dev
To get help on the mailing list manager, send mail to
mailto:majordomo@dscpl.com.au
with the following in the body of the message:
help
The mailing list is intended to be very low volume and should be used
by those actively developing BLT to coordinate their activities.
o Basic Object Systems (BOS)
BOS is a SELF-like objects extension to Tcl.
To join, send email to mailto:snl+bos-requests@cmu.edu and then
send messages to mailto:snl+box@cmu.edu .
o CAML Light Mailing list
CAML Light contains a contributed interface to the Tk library.
To discuss developments in this interface, subscribe to the
mailing list by sending email to
mailto:caml-list-request@pauillac.inra.fr.
o Canvas Visitor
This is a mailing list setup up for sharing information about
the visitors extension as well as any other extensions
(preferably) related to the tk canvas widget.
The visitors extension was made to enable users to add
operations on canvas graphics items without having to
constantly be changing the Tk core to do so (yes it required a
core change :-). There is a sample visitor included in the
release which performs coord rotation on each specified canvas
item. This may be used as an example for further visitors.
Future releases may also included contributed visitors (please
share your ideas) and a working C API to creating canvas
items.
To sign up, send email to mailto:Majordomo@pgw.on.ca
with the following command in the body of your email message:
subscribe canvas-visitors {email address}
o cfh
German discussion group concerning cfh (call for help), a useful
Tcl script for eggdrop bots on irc net.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cfh
where you provide your own email address in place of {email address}.
If you have any trouble with this mailing list feel free to
contact its adminstrator mailto:Matthew.Rice@pgw.on.ca
(Matthew Rice).
o CODA
This online data acquisition system uses Tcl to coordinate programs.
To join its mailing list, send email to
mailto:mailserv@cebaf.gov using a "SUBSCRIBE CODA-L" for the
body of the message.
o Colossus
A nickname for the TinyScript project, created by Jean-Claude Wippler
mailto:jcw@equi4.com. Discussions cover small scripting
languages (Colossus) and more.
Colossus mailing list - to join, send an email to
mailto:solossus-add@mini.net
o CMT Users Mailing list
The Berkeley Continuous Media Toolkit is a Tcl toolkit to support
a portable way of developing multimedia playback against a variety
of devices.
To subscribe, send email to
mailto:cmt-users-request@bmrc.berkeley.edu.
o comp.lang.tcl.announce mailing list
By using the service available at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tcl_announce/
one can receive by email the postings of comp.lang.tcl.announce.
Contact the owner at mailto:tcl_announce-owner@yahoogroups.com
o Copenhagen SGML Tool (CoST) mailing list
CoST is a beta level tool designed to enhance sgmls so as to
add additional flexibility in processing SGML documents.
To join, send email to mailto:Klaus.Harbo@euromath.dk.
Actual messages apparently go to mailto:cost-list@math.ku.dk.
o Dart support
The emails sent to the dart support can be found at
http://fndaub.fnal.gov:8000/usr/products/cluster_disk/hypermail/archives/ols/dart-support/
forming a sort of mailing list.
o Dejagnu
This set of mailing lists are NOT maintained by Cygnus, the
developers of Dejagnu.
Dejagnu is an expect 5.x based package designed to be a framework
for testing other software. Test suites exist for various GNU
products such as GDB and binutils.
3 mailing lists - dejagnu-bugs, dejagnu-developers, and
dejagnu-questions - have been created as a part of
mailto:listserv@yggdrasil.com.
To subscribe, send the line:
subscribe dejagnu-bugs yourname@yoursite.com
to the email address mailto:listserv@yggdrasil.com where you
put your own email address in place of yourname@yoursite.com and you