by [Cameron Laird] - 'DejaNews:'' [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=375277276]

''Is it really vacation season? There's space to mention only a fraction of the thoughtful announcements and analyses that appeared in the last week:''

   * [Donal Fellows] offers 75 lines of code to dump the contents of a canvas http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~fellowsd/tcl/dumpcanv.tcl
   * [Paul Duffin] explains how to code a C interface to Tcl's bytecode compiler to improve performance (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=372390483])
   * [Bryan Oakley] refines his "widget-morphing" to disable selected entry functions (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=373883803]) and releases his pure-Tcl combobox http://www1.clearlight.com/~oakley/tcl/combobox/index.html
   * Multiple posts during the week express satisfaction with various offerings of Jay Sekora's JSTOOLS package http://www.aq.org/~js/js-jstools.html
   * [Andreas Kupries] releases 1.2 of [Trf] and [TrfCrypt], which fold compression, error-correction, encryption, ... into I/O in intelligent ways ftp://ftp.westend.com/pub/aku/trf1.2.README ftp://ftp.westend.com/pub/aku/trfcrypt1.2.README
''Martin Schrape <MSchrape@atomika.com> has ported 8.0p1 to VxWorks, and plans to do the same for 8.1 (including threads!) this summer.''

   * [Jeff Hobbs]' FAQ on Tk usage has moved to http://oprs.mchh.siemens.de/tcl/faqs/tk/
   * The Beta 5 release of [TclPro] includes its Wrapper, Checker, and Compiler http://www.tcl.tk/beta
   * MathWizards, Inc. releases a beta of MathXplorer/T. http://www.mathwizards.com/products/tcl
   * Tycho Slate is the Tycho project's mature refinement of the canvas widget http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/~johnr/code/slate/