**Contact info**

'''mail:''' jos _dot_ decoster _at_ gmail _dot_ com

[jdc] on the Tcler's chat.

'''homepage:''' http://jos.decoster.googlepages.com/

**Contributions**

   * A [Space Invaders] game I made.
   * [tclMIDI], a package to work with [Midi] files. Also try [Muzic] to make music with Tcl.
   * [midistreamdll], a wrapper for the Windows Midi stream API.
   * Needed to assist in local elections, I made this little script to allocate the seats according to the [Imperiali] method
   * Some tkchat hacking in [tkchat bot]
   * [tclMetarGui]: a [starkit] to display METAR weather data on a world map.
   * [Tchords]: a scale and chord finder for guitar or bass.
   * [RMMADWIM]: solve and solve1 skeleton
   * [Metar stations]
   * [Metar data]
   * [World locations]
   * New wiki [Formatting Rules]
   * [WubWikit]
   * [wiki database for offline use]
   * [webchain]: a web interface to IRC chat
   * wubchain, a [Wub] based web interface to IRC chat [http://code.google.com/p/wubchain/]
   * Example using [Google AJAX search API]
   * [C++ object-style Tcl example extension]
   * [ar]
   * Browse the wiki in pictures: http://jos.decoster.googlepages.com/thumbs.html (limited to images hosted on http://wiki.tcl.tk/_repo/wiki_images) or http://jos.decoster.googlepages.com/allthumbs.html (all 1788 images).
   * [Code Golf Saving Time]

**Using [BLT] with Tcl 8.5.2**

For an application I develop, I'm using the BLT commands `bgexec`, `busy`, `graph` and `barchart`. `bgexec` and `busy` are available as starkits (check [Standalone bgexec] and [busy]), but the `graph` and `barchart` commands have no startkit equivalent. So I had to get BLT going for Tcl 8.5.2. The followings changes were needed:

   1. BLT has its own copy of the TkDisplay structure definition. A new member was added to this struct in Tk 8.5.2, which caused a crash of the `busy` command. This new member is `XIMStyle inputStyle;`, found in file `tkInt.h` of the Tk distribution. This member needs to be added to the `TkDisplay` definition as found in `bltWindow.c` file of BLT.
   1. Tk must be compiled without [Xft] support. Xft seems to cause trouble with e.g. the `bitmap` command.
   1. Some libs need to be added to the link command. This needs to be inserted before `-lX11` in the generated `Makefile` in the `src` and `src/shared` subdirectories: `-lX11 -lXss -lXext`.
   1. When using the zoom-stack, some assertion trigger. Commenting them out solved the problem without introducing problems. I removed the 4 `assert` statements in the `BoxesDontOverlap` function in file `bltGrMarker.c`.

The BLT code as I used can be found http://jos.decoster.googlepages.com/bltfortk8.5.2%|%here%|%. The archive also contains fixes for `bgexec` and the makefiles made by Koen Danckaert (a colleague). It does not contain the patches as found on sourceforge. I only tested the commands I'm using in my applications and they seem to work OK:

   * `bgexec`
   * `busy`
   * `graph`
   * `barchart`

**Wiki edit statistics**

***1998: 8 edits***
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&|Binary representation of numbers|1|&
&|Tcl Benchmarks|1|&
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&|Graffiti|6|&
&|The Tcler's Wiki|5|&
&|Wikit Problems|5|&
&|Wikit|4|&
&|Tcl'ers|4|&
&|Comments on the Tcl'ers Wiki|4|&
&|Larry Virden|4|&
&|The purpose of this Wiki|4|&
&|About this site|4|&
&|Glossary of terms|4|&
&|New Pages|4|&
&|ETEN|4|&
&|Jean-Claude Wippler|3|&
&|Wiki|3|&
&|Suggestions for Wikit|3|&
&|scripted document|3|&
&||3|&
&|SEE|3|&
&|Additional list functions|3|&
&|How to grow your own Wiki|3|&
&|Acronym collection|3|&
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&|Dirty Dozen|1|&
&|Comments on the Tcl'ers Wiki|1|&
&|The purpose of this Wiki|1|&
&|Welcome Visitors|1|&
&||1|&
&|STEP|1|&
&|How to grow your own Wiki|1|&
&|Commonly encountered problems in Tcl|1|&
&|Tcl community projects|1|&
&|Chart of proposed list functionality|1|&
&|Donal Fellows|1|&
&|Mark Harrison|1|&
&|Jim Ivler|1|&
&|Don Libes|1|&
&|Bob Techentin|1|&
&|Namespace resolution on unknown command|1|&
&|menu|1|&
&|An analog clock in Tk|1|&
&|A parser's monolog|1|&
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&|A file properties dialog|1|&
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&|New Pages|89|&
&|Einfach Tcl|55|&
&|Graffiti|48|&
&|Tcl'ers|46|&
&|Ask, and it shall be given.|38|&
&|VFS|36|&
&|Tcl Tutorial Discussions|36|&
&|Critcl builds C extensions on-the-fly|34|&
&|The Tcler's Wiki|32|&
&|Reworking the clock command|28|&
&|mini.net misdirection|27|&
&|testing|27|&
&|Applications in Tcl and Tcl/Tk|25|&
&|Why is TCL syntax so weird|24|&
&|Graph theory in Tcl|24|&
&|One-line web browser in Tcl|23|&
&|argv|22|&
&|Wikit's performance|21|&
&|Degree histograms|20|&
&|Ways to execute Perl programs from Tcl|19|&
&|English plurals|19|&
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&|206.109.1.32|661|&
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&|Graffiti|274|&
&|Ask, and it shall be given.|234|&
&|Tcl'ers|159|&
&|NewzPoint|151|&
&|Changes in Tcl/Tk 8.4|100|&
&|Notebook App|96|&
&|Scripted Compiler|76|&
&|The Tcler's Wiki|76|&
&|MacOS X|70|&
&|Expect|67|&
&|Tcl jobs|65|&
&|Tcl 9.0 WishList|62|&
&|Suggestions for Wikit|60|&
&|Comments on the Tcl'ers Wiki|58|&
&|Applications in Tcl and Tcl/Tk|58|&
&|tDOM|54|&
&|Migration to 8.4: CONSTification|54|&
&|Critcl|53|&
&|WikiDiff|50|&
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&|Veronica Loell|271|&
&|New Pages|254|&
&|Graffiti|252|&
&|Tcl 9.0 WishList|193|&
&|Tk 9.0 WishList|164|&
&|POLL: Argument Expansion Syntax|119|&
&|wish-reaper|114|&
&|XiRCON-II|106|&
&|Tcl'ers|96|&
&|The Tcler's Wiki|80|&
&|Suggestions for Wikit|70|&
&|user documentation project|70|&
&|Rohan Pall|66|&
&|Gem Game|63|&
&|Why Do Programs Take Up So Much Memory ?|61|&
&|RS|58|&
&|Mark G. Saye|56|&
&|Applications in Tcl and Tcl/Tk|54|&
&|What feature or functionality is missing in Tcl|53|&
&|Batteries Included|53|&
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&|Graffiti|187|&
&|New Pages|185|&
&|George Peter Staplin|154|&
&|The Tcler's Wiki|151|&
&|Tcl'ers|108|&
&|unperson|108|&
&|Ask and it shall be given Survey|108|&
&|Discussion about a more concise wiki front page|104|&
&|unperson Problem|103|&
&|RS|99|&
&|Tkabber|99|&
&|Looking for a TCL Programmer|95|&
&|TclHttpd Needs|94|&
&|CB|86|&
&|The TK GUI - Q&A|85|&
&|They help tcl'ers to travel|79|&
&|dict|76|&
&|Audio Webcast from the Tcl Conference|74|&
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&|Poll: do you want OOP?|144|&
&|Adrian Ho|97|&
&|Whim window manager|91|&
&|Jim|85|&
&|Tcl'ers|85|&
&|TIP #257: Object Orientation for Tcl|78|&
&|Tcl Marketing discussion|75|&
&|Hearts|70|&
&|What If: Everything is a Thing|70|&
&|Tcl Style Guide|67|&
&|RS|66|&
&|continuation|64|&
&|another Asteroids|60|&
&|Ideas for Projects in Tcl/Tk|59|&
&|Dodekalogue|56|&
&|Wikit Problems|55|&
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&|Refrigerator_Magnetic_Poetry|118|&
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&|wanyozxy|70|&
&|Applications in Tcl and Tcl/Tk|69|&
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&|Zarutian|249|&
&|Graffiti|239|&
&|Iching_Fortunes|207|&
&|ToW Tcl on WebFreeWay|194|&
&|tclOO missing features for Itcl|174|&
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&|Ask, and it shall be given # 5|144|&
&|TemplaTcl: a Tcl template engine|142|&
&|Applications in TCL and Tcl/Tk -#Index-|126|&
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&|BraceStarBrace|97|&
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&|eTcl bugs and comments|93|&
&|Cloverfield|86|&
&|Tcl/Tk 8.6 Roadmap|81|&
&|Wiki Announcements|80|&
&|wiki database for offline use|76|&
&|Tcl'ers|62|&
&|Web-hosting companies that offer server-side Tcl|52|&
&|Recent Changes is virtually worthless|50|&
&|Tcl 8.6 Wish List|45|&
&|Tcl Math Syntax is Inferior to JavaScript/Python/Ruby/C/C++/Java/Perl/PHP|42|&
&|Changes in Tcl/Tk 8.6|40|&
&|TIP proposal for Try-Catch Exception Handling|38|&
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