by [Mark Roseman] - 'DejaNews:'' [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=439362508]

''Loads of great discussions again this week, of which we can only mention a couple here. There were a few new software and resource announcements, and a couple of others we managed to sleuth up. Note also the addition of [Scriptics]' evangelism site in our regular list of resources.''

   * The addition of new widgets in Tk 8.2 is a good opportunity to try out the model where the Tcl/Tk core consists of the kernel plus loadable modules (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=437448504])
   * The same thread also discusses issues relating to the difficulty of managing both packages and standalone binaries (thread [http://www.dejanews.com/thread/436892970])
   * The first beta release of TclPro 1.2 is available (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=437355045])
   * [Jeffrey Hobbs] posted a speedup patch for the Tk libraries, cleaning up their Tcl code (bracketed expr, string compare...) (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=436728102])
   * [Andrew Friedl] is looking for people to continue work on his TclOCX/[AxTcl] project (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=436892972])
   * A new commercial GUI builder for Tcl/Tk, VisualGIPSY, is out http://www.prs.de/int/products/vg/index.shtml
   * Stoian Jekov has begun an online Tcl magazine http://tcl.webjump.com/
   * TclFont allows you to create stroke fonts from Tcl scripts http://www.curvesoft.com/tools.html

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