My name is Alex Plotnikov. I live in Voronezh obl. Russia where ''Alex'' may refer to Aleksei or Aleksandr, me being latter.
I'm in [Tcl/Tk] realms since 2018.
A fan of [BOOK The Tcl Programming Language%|%the book by Ashok P. Nadkarni%|%]. Still my main (perhaps only:) interest in [Tcl/Tk] is its GUI component.
[Book of Tcl by Ashok Nadkarni read here and there]
** Wiki **
Ramble through the wiki! Ramble here and there getting hints, tips, ideas with its [https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/search%|%Search%|%] really so helpful, much better than simple googling.
My tiny contributions to the wiki caused largely by its coherent ideas are:
* [alited, a lite editor%|%alited%|%] - probably the best of my stuff
* [Pave, sort of geometry manager] - seems to be really cool
* [e_menu, pluginable menu for editors] - useful in file managers as well
* [bartabs, bar of tabs] - well designed, best presented in [alited, a lite editor%|%alited%|%]
* [baltip, balloon tip] - used everywhere in my GUI stuff
* [hl_tcl, Tcl/Tk syntax highlighter] - used in [alited, a lite editor%|%alited%|%] and in [https://aplsimple.github.io%|%aplsimple.github.io%|%]
* [ale_themes, ttk themes for alited] - a bit modified ttk themes originally made by [https://github.com/rdbende/Azure-ttk-theme%|%rdbende%|%]
* [mulster, multi-line replacements in text] - used e.g. in [https://aplsimple.github.io%|%aplsimple.github.io%|%] pages made by [Ruff!]
* [doctest for Tcl] - used e.g. in [e_menu, pluginable menu for editors%|%e_menu%|%]
* [Tk color picker a bit modified and explained%|%Tk color picker%|%] - for Linux
* [aloupe, a screen loupe] - a small utility
* [screenshooter] - a small utility
Few pages are devoted to my experience I'd like to share with [Tcl/Tk] community:
* [How to chisel at chiselapp.com] - some of my experience at [http://chiselapp.com%|%chiselapp.com%|%]
* [User-friendly Fossil site] - an addition to the previous one * [Shimmering in Tk] - some of my experience at dealing with [Tk]
** Hopes **
[https://aplsimple.github.io%|%aplsimple.github.io%|%] became my site after ''sundowning'' Mercurial by Bitbucket, hopefully the new site will never be damaged with the sunny acrobatics.
There is also [http://chiselapp.com/user/aplsimple/repository/aplsimple_github_io%|%its mirror%|%] at [http://chiselapp.com%|%chiselapp.com%|%]. As for Tcl/Tk sources, my [http://chiselapp.com/user/aplsimple%|%chiselapp.com%|%] is more active than [http://github.com/aplsimple%|%github.com%|%].
I'll never stop feeling warm-hearted about [Tcl/Tk]. Although it is underestimated now, it keeps believing in its future and its sponsors to come.
I hope to write some day an application sort of ''all people are brothers and sisters'' however pompous and silly it could sound. [Tcl/Tk] is good for this sort of applications.
Obviously, now is not the time to think of such type of hope. The hope may seem a sad irony at the best, a rude hypocrisy at the worst.
When being on a ship of fools with her crazy crew led by an Ahab, you don't feel certain even of the near future.
''I'll be grateful to anyone who will try and fork/save'' [https://github.com/aplsimple?tab=repositories%|%my repos at github.com%|%] or [http://chiselapp.com/user/aplsimple%|%at chiselapp.com%|%] as I don't feel certain of their future either.
However, hope is hope.
The river begins to freeze when the cooler comes
Her vapours send us a farewell message
Like saying you'll not see me
Till the warmer's return
Till springs
Till waves
Till birds
Till leaves' gay rustle.
[https://aplsimple.github.io/en/misc/springs/files/vapours.png%|%freezing%|%]
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