by [Mark Roseman] - 'DejaNews:'' [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=455230011] ''Tons of good stuff this week. The anticipated 8.0.5 core release is out. I was excited to see Fuzz's work on embedding Tcl/Tk as an ActiveX control. For extension authors, check out the draft proposal on Scriptics' TEA site, and watch for more news soon.'' * The Tcl/Tk 8.0.5 core has been released (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=453234817]) * TclControl is an early release of software allowing you to wrap up a Tcl/Tk script as an ActiveX control (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=455137493]) * [David Gravereaux] explains how to write multithreaded extensions for Tcl (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=453203792]) * The [BWidget] package is now up to version 1.1 (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=453873696]) * [Paul Duffin] is working on extending the built-in Tcl object types, to include e.g. map, vector, string, struct, chain (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=454226559]) * Watch this page for notes from the Tcl Extension Architecture Summit this week http://www.tcl.tk/doc/tea/tea-summit-99.html * Some notes on 8.1's handling of channels (see [http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=453885041]) * The biggest thread this week was on looking at a standard set of in-place list operations, for efficiency (thread [http://www.dejanews.com/thread/452582336])