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March 15, 2006
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QOTW:

"Then again, if you have people writing BIND config files that look like this, you have bigger problems than trying to parse them with Tcl."—sage Melissa Schrumpf, in a thread that provides excellent counsel on configuration from a Tcl perspective
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/1462b8dc8a16eec0/

"DoP: It seems unnecessary (and embarrassing) to memorialize such things in the ChangeLog.
DKF: Instead, they get their own vanity thread on c.l.t..."

POTW:

GVI, The Graphical Voter Interface, is a GUI (Graphical User Interface) for voting, suitable for use in private or public elections. It can handle write-ins and multi-language elections, and it can automate voting along party lines. GVI can be used for Condorcet Voting and Instant Runoff Voting, which allow voters to rank the candidates in order of preference. It can also be used for Approval Voting, which allows voters to select more than one candidate. It can handle conventional voting too, of course!
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/216ae46bd659d5d6
http://russp.us/GVI.htm

Active X-Controls using and providing:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/6ac12685f4349420

"This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way" A standing rule on the MicrosoftOS seems to require system-messages to be as cryptic and unhelpfull as possible. Still without a bright and insightfull closure this thread could use some input from a windows-savvy reader:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/b2170061f9a2edfb
Why does the interpreter created with thread::create not know about argv and argc as i expected?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/1fd2f8b4d4c1e6b9
Where is RamDebugger? Can't find it here, can't find it there:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/fb7be16910e1a7a9
Current Version of RamDebugger is 5.5 it can be found at:
http://www.gidhome.com/RamDebugger/ramdebugger_toc.html
Download from: ftp://ftp.compassis.com/pub/ramdebugger/ as
ftp://ftp.compassis.com/pub/ramdebugger/RamDebugger5.5.kit or
ftp://ftp.compassis.com/pub/ramdebugger/RamDebugger5.5.zip
People starting with tcl/tk often ask for a GUI-Builder. Something they know to need with other Widget-Toolkits:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_frm/thread/60a5a54537a1be75
Are there Paths beyond 255 Characters? Hitches, opinions, religion on windows pathlength limitations:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9833529&forum_id=3854
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9833535&forum_id=3854
Thanks to Arjen Markus for his so-accurate summary of Wiki activity:
Let us get started with the summary rightaway!
The guts of Tcl
Traces are an intriguing mechanism, both loved and feared and, yes, ignored. Learn more about them at
http://wiki.tcl.tk/398
The core team take performance seriously. Here are results for commands related to the file system:
http://wikit.tcl.tk/10582
... and wise words about memory consumption can be found at:
http://wiki.tcl.tk/14504
A simple thing like toggling a logical/boolean variable provokes a lot of ingenious solutions:
http://wiki.tcl.tk/4517
The cosmetics of Tcl Tcl warts: Would you (dis)agree? Have your own warts? These are no warts, these are beauty spots!
http://wiki.tcl.tk/1798
Applying Tcl ...
... to SOAP: http://wiki.tcl.tk/15579 explains one particular design in detail.
... to browse help files and the like: http://wiki.tcl.tk/15569
... to detect the differences between files: http://wiki.tcl.tk/12803
... to run PHP-scripts: use PHP in the context of tclhttpd http://wiki.tcl.tk/12130
... to code on the clipboard: http://wiki.tcl.tk/15576