by [Cameron Laird] - 'DejaNews:'' [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=395605918]

''Who'll adopt Tix? The alternative seems to be that we stumble forward, saying, "Yes, it's an orphan" a multiple times each week.''

   * Project E.L.M.O. is a group effort to bring the comp.lang.tcl base FAQs up to date (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=392942010])
   * Sebastian Wagner describes his year-old patch which accelerates some canvas animations by an order of magnitude (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=391970697])
   * John Stump makes profiling easy (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=394675698])
   * Eric Boudaillier compactly illustrates a programmatic way to ignore mouse clicks (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=392410541])
   * Alexandre Ferrieux advises renunciation of the hard problem of mixing event sources in favor of the easier one of serializing them (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=392336875]) and categorizes schemes to eliminate a spawned child (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=393249865])
   * Sebastian Wangnick integrates remarks from Jan Nijtmans, Bryan Oakley, and Andreas Kupries in a canvas-rendering patch (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=392989505])
   * Tony Darugar concisely compares the leading Tcl-savvy HTTP servers (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=394658157]) and Clif Flynt does much the same for the debuggers (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=394595658])
   * 8.0.3 turns out to introduce several bugs. While work continues behind the scenes to catalogue these compre- hensively, Juergen Schoenwaelder, for example, accurately summarizes a subtle one involving Tcl_CreateChannelHandler (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=394315094])
   * Tom Silva patches {check,radio}buttons with bit masks, and more (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=394434140])
''The audiophiles continue to roll out ideas. Look for their "Sound Playback in Tcl/Tk!", among other threads. Dennis LaBelle's FreeWrap is inspiring remarkable fer- ment, with several people already working behind the scenes to extend/enhance/... it.''

''Coming up: complete renovation of www.tclconsortium.org. Watch for it, by early October. Also, work is underway to catalogue all the work-in-progress (as opposed to more-or- less-finished extensions, demonstrations, applications, ...) of the Tcl community.''