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Subject: FAQ: comp.lang.tcl Frequently Asked Questions (5/5)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl,comp.answers,news.answers
From: [e-mail] (Larry W. Virden)
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994 17:44:21 GMT

Archive-name: tcl-faq/part5
Version: 5.0
Last-modified: April 20, 1994

    For more information concerning Tcl (see "tcl-faq/part1"),
(see "tcl-faq/part2"), (see "tcl-faq/part3"), or (see "tcl-faq/part4").

    Note that a Contact address with ?? at the end means that I was
unable to verify the address.  Also, Contacts without addresses or marked
as Unknown mean that I had limited to no information about the contact
person.

Index of questions:

XIII. Since Tcl/Tk appear to be extensible, are there any common extensions?
    o adatcl
    o addinput
    o after command extended
    o argument processing for Tcl
    o argument parsing with defaults
    o array name string matching extension
    o binary I/O
    o BLT toolkit
    o BOS
    o Bumgarner misc tcl functions
    o busy window
    o C or C++ function called from Tcl
    o C++ compilation of tk
    o calculator
    o Calc_Object
    o calendar
    o Canvas bitmap mask extension (Earls)
    o Canvas bitmap mask extension (Fine)
    o Canvas support of printing umlaut
    o Canvas support of open Tcl file
    o CASTE
    o command line bindings for entry widget
    o colorfocus replacement system
    o color settings
    o Compound itcl widget class
    o Convert strings to and from WWW escape notation
    o Tcl crypt
    o ctaxt
    o dashproc
    o dashed items in canvas
    o DBM 1.6 interface
    o define bitmaps in tk scripts
    o deck.tk
    o Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) widgets
    o Disjoint listbox selections (Ewing)
    o Disjoint listbox selections (Ewing/Lutz)
    o Disjoint listbox selections (Raines)
    o Disjoint listbox selections (Wunderli)
    o Dynamic loading wish
    o eiftcl
    o Enabled Mail
    o every command
    o file I/O as events
    o file select (da Silva)
    o file select (sherman)
    o file select (Silva)
    o font settings
    o foreach additional list enhancement
    o FSBox - file selection box
    o fumx
    o GDBM Tcl interface (Doan)
    o GDBM Tcl interface (Lindig)
    o getdate
    o GLXAux bindings
    o graph
    o GRASS GIS widget
    o GroupKit
    o heirarchy class
    o HTML for Alpha
    o Hush
    o iconbutton
    o [incr Tcl]
    o [incr Tcl] file selection dialog
    o [incr Tcl] stacks and queues
    o [incr Tcl] widget base class
    o Informix interface
    o Key List printing procedures
    o Key symbol dynamic support
    o Key symbols enhanced support
    o Lamda pure Tcl functions - noble
    o Lamda anonymous procedures - thomas
    o Lamda functions - Tromey
    o Lamda functions - Wallach
    o lassign
    o Lightweight plotting to canvas
    o Linear sort on list of lists
    o lisp2wish (Kaye)
    o lisp2wish (Kramer)
    o list select
    o list quicksort
    o Metacanvas
    o Moat
    o moreButtons
    o mouse button release command
    o Multibyte Support for Tk
    o Multi-column menus for Tk 3.6
    o Multiple Extensions Management and Dynamic Linking
    o Multiple interpreter support
    o Nautilus
    o net CDF
    o Network management
    o NextStep / Tcl interface (Johnson)
    o NextStep / Tcl MAB
    o NIS+ interface library
    o Objective C / Tcl library
    o Open Scripting Architecture (Apple) Extension
    o OpenWindows tkBind mod
    o Oracle extension to Tcl.
    o Pacco (Pavia Active-Component Compound Objects)
    o Pack widget with no shrink option
    o package extension
    o Password widget
    o Pie menus
    o Pixel position of a character
    o Photo widget
    o Pixmap support
    o Postgres extensions
    o procedure tracing
    o Prolog / Tcl interface
    o pset
    o PV-WAVE interface
    o Eichin random numbers
    o Libes random numbers
    o Salmon random numbers
    o Schoenwaelder random numbers
    o structure like objects in Tcl
    o readline-like function support for tcl
    o readline-like function support for tk
    o readline-like function support for tk - miguel
    o RenderMan bindings
    o Reregister interpreter name
    o Safe Tcl Interpreter
    o Scheme-based Tk
    o searchbox
    o secure tcl
    o showproc.tcl
    o SIPP extensions
    o Spreadsheet
    o SQL support
    o SunOS dld package
    o Sybase Tcl
    o System V ipc
    o tcl and tk shared library support (Brown)
    o tcl and tk shared library support (Salmon)
    o tcl and tk shared library support (Zhu)
    o tcl debugger (libes)
    o tcl debugger (extended tcl)
    o Tcl externals
    o Tcl getopt - earls
    o Tcl getopt - mangin
    o Tcl getopt - roydhouse
    o Tcl IPC interface
    o Tcl modifications to support threads
    o Tcl Packages
    o Tcl Packages simplified
    o Tcl SQL
    o Tcl-DP
    o tcl2array
    o tclcompare
    o tclIV
    o tclMIDI
    o tclOBST
    o tclprof
    o tclRawTCP
    o tclsockets
    o tclTCP
    o Tcl/Tk Japanized; support for Kanji
    o tclvogle
    o Extended Tcl (tclX)
    o tclX / Tk merge
    o tclX dynamic library patches
    o tclXt
    o tclXtsend
    o tcl_object
    o tcl_streams
    o tcpConnect
    o TDebug
    o text widget 16 bit text support
    o text widget enhancements
    o text widget improved bindings
    o text widget underline colors
    o theObjects
    o Tix widget set
    o Tk auxilary library of bindings
    o tk Bell and Cutbuffer patches
    o Tk Canvas Segments
    o Tk Emacs bindings
    o Tk Emacs widget
    o Tk focus follows pointer
    o TkIcon
    o tkInput
    o TkMegaWidget
    o Tk menu insert subcommand
    o Tk menu postcommand fix
    o tk mwm enhancements
    o Tk Perl 4
    o Tk Perl 5
    o Tk private color maps
    o tk RichText Format widget
    o Tk without X (beta)
    o tk-mod.shar
    o tkCanvSeg
    o tkFScale
    o tkGLXwin
    o TkSteal
    o tkText (Tk 1.3 compatible - Christenson)
    o tkText (Tk 1.3 compatible - Cole)
    o tkText (Tk 2.0 compatible)
    o TkWindow access
    o tk equivalent of XTextWidth
    o Tooltalk interface
    o Transportable Objects
    o tree widget (brighton)
    o tree widget (richardson)
    o turtle graphics
    o validate
    o varframe
    o VUM widgets
    o warp
    o widgetTree
    o wincr
    o wmstuff
    o X11 Selection support enhancement
    o X11 visual selection subcommand
    o X11 XID enhancement - kaplan
    o X11 XID enhancement - hoegeman
    o Xt replay library
    o XView Drop support

XIV. Is there any commercial use of Tcl/Tk?

End of FAQ Index

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From: FAQ Tcl/Tk Package Catalog
Subject: -XIII- Since Tcl/Tk appear to be extensible, are there any
        common extensions?

What: adatcl
Where: ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/cs/distribs/arcadia/adatcl7.3.tar.Z
    ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/adatcl7.3.tar.gz
Description: Interface between Verdix/Sunada compiler and Tcl.
Contact: "Dennis Heimbigner" <[e-mail]>

What: addinput
Where: ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/distrib/addinput-3.6a.Z
    ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/addinput-3.6a.gz
Description: Implements two new Tk file handle callback commands.
Contact: "Mark Diekhans" <[e-mail]>

What: after command extended
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/TknewAfterCmd3.6a.tar.gz
Description: The after command is extended to support new subcommands to
    query pending commands, abort pending commands, prevent
    resubmission of identical commands, edit the command script
    after submission, or reschedule submitted command.
ContacT: [e-mail] (Wolf-D. Ihlenfeldt)

What: argument processing for Tcl
Where: From the contact
Description: Provides Tk-like argument processing to Tcl proc writers.
Contact: "Karl Lehenbauer" <[e-mail]>

What: argument parsing with defaults
Where: From the contact
Description: Tcl code to parse arguments and provide default values.
    See theObjects-2.x for a C version.
Contact: "Juergen Wagner" <[e-mail]>

What: array name string matching extension
Where: From the contact
Description: A small extension to tclVar to allow a pattern to be
    used with the "array names" command.  An array used as a
    2D-array by having elements of the form:  matrix(x,y) could be
    accessed by: array names matrix "1,*" to return all elements in
    the first column.
Contact: "Stephen A Uhler" <[e-mail]>

What: binary I/O
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/code/binary-io-hack
Description: Tcl based way of reading binary data containing nulls.
Contact: "John Robert LoVerso" <[e-mail]>

What: BLT toolkit
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/BLT-1.6.tar.gz
Description: Library of Tk extensions.  Includes new versions of
    x/y graph, barchart, hypertext, and busy widgets, a table geometry
    manager, read and write bitmap commands, cut buffer, bell,
    minor window manager interfaces, drag and drop support,
    and several useful debugging commands.
Contact: "George A. Howlett" <[e-mail]>

What: BOS
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/bos-1.31.tar.Z
    ftp://ftp.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/snl/pub/bos-1.31.tar.z
Description: BOS - the Basic Object System; SELF-like Tcl objects extension.
Contact: "Admin. requests for BOS mailing list" <[e-mail]>
    [e-mail] (BOS mailing list)

What: Bumgarner misc tcl functions
Where: From the contact
Description: A set of misc Tcl functions, such as a version of file
    that returns true if all the list of options supplied return true,
    a proc to clear an array of all elements, a proc to determine
    whether a proc exists, and a proc to evaluate a command and then
    undefine it.
Contact: "Bill Bumgarner" <[e-mail]>

What: busy window
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/busy-1.1.tar.gz
Description: Tk extension to create a busy command which prevents the
    user from clicking on application buttons while the program is busy.
    The author/contact recommends you move to the BLT toolkit.
Contact: "George A. Howlett" <[e-mail]>

What: C or C++ function called from Tcl
Where: ftp://ftp.forwiss.uni-passau.de/pub/unix/x11/programming/tcl/extensions/min_extention.tar.gz
    ftp://ftp.forwiss.uni-passau.de/pub/unix/x11/programming/tcl/extensions/tkminext.tar.gz
Description: A minimal example (in German) of including a C or C++
    function in Tcl or Tk.
Contact: "Stefan Iglhaut" <[e-mail]>

What: C++ compilation of tk
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tk3.6forC++.patch.gz
Description: A patch that allows tk 3.2 main.c and other extension routines
    to be compiled with a C++ compiler.
Contact: "Ken Yap" <[e-mail]>

What: Calc_Object
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/code/bc.tar.Z
Description: A Tcl object which talks to bc via expect.
Contact: "Terrence Brannon" <[e-mail]> ??

What: calculator
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/calculator.tk.tar.gz
Description: Simple Tk calculator
Contact: "Richard V. Booth" <[e-mail]>

What: calendar
Where: From the contact
Description: Tk calendar widget
Contact: "Sani Nassif [227]" <[e-mail]> ??

What: Canvas bitmap mask extension (Earls)
Where: From the contact
Description: Patch tkCanvBmap to add a -mask option to Canvas Bitmaps.
Contact: "Johnson Michael Earls" <[e-mail]>

What: Canvas bitmap mask extension (Fine)
Where: From the contact
Description: Patch file for tkCanvBmap to add a -mask option for drawing
    bitmaps.
Contact: "Thomas A Fine" <[e-mail]>

What: Canvas support of printing umlaut
Where: From the contact
Description: Patch to prolog.ps to allowing printing of umlauts.
Contact: "Johann Friedrich Heinrichmeyer" <[e-mail]>

What: Canvas support of open Tcl file
Where: From the contact
Description: Tk 3.6 canvas postscript subcommand enhancement to accept
    open Tcl file in -file option.
Contact: "Tom Tromey" <[e-mail]>

What: CASTE
Where: From the contact
Description: o-o programming based on Common Lisp Object System (CLOS)
Contact: "Michael Braverman" <[e-mail]>

What: command line bindings for entry widget
Where: From the contact
Description: Bindings to turn an entry widget into a command line.
Contact: "Gregor Schmid" <[e-mail]>

What: colorfocus replacement system
Where: From the contact
Description: Tk replacement code to inform the window manager about
    non-standard colormaps.
Contact: "Paul Mackerras" <[e-mail]>

What:  color settings
Where: From the contact
Description: Tcl procedure to select appropriate color whether machine is
    color or monochrome
Contact: "Juergen Wagner" <[e-mail]>

What: Compound itcl widget class
Where: From the contact
Description: An itcl abstract base class for compound widgets.
Contact: "Nat Pryce" <[e-mail]>

What: Convert strings to and from WWW escape notation
Where: From the contact
Description: Set of routines to do the expansion and condensation of
    special characters to escape characters for HTML.  These
    were called xh2a and ah2x.
Contact: "Joachim Mueller" <[e-mail]>

What: Tcl crypt
Where: From the contact
Description: While useful in it's own right, the intention here was
    to provide a very small example of how to integrate C functions
    into Tcl and Tk.
Contact: "Juergen Nickelsen" <[e-mail]>

What: ctaxt
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/ctaxt1.2.tar.gz
Description: Combine Tcl/Tk with other X Window toolkits (like Motif)
    into a single graphical user interface.
Contact: "Holger Pleiss" <[e-mail]>

What: dashproc
Where: From the contact
Description: Defines procedures that take Tk like options and forces them
    to become variables in your procedure.
Contact: "Phil Gordon" <[e-mail]>

What: dashed items in canvas
Where: ftp://zenon.inria.fr/pub/tk/tkCanvDashed.tar.Z
Description: New function to be linked into interpreter.
Contact: "Frank Mangin" <[e-mail]>

What: DBM 1.6 interface
Where: From the contact
Description: A Tcl interface to db-1.6 , the new BSD dbm replacement.
Contact: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <[e-mail]>

What: define bitmaps in tk scripts
Where: From the contact
Description: Add a Tk command called defbitmap which allows you to define the
    hex codes for a bitmap to be used in a script.
Contact: "Makoto Ishisone" <[e-mail]>

What: deck.tk
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/code/deck.tk.gz
Description: A simple implementation of InterViews "deck" widget
Contact: "Joe VanAndel" <[e-mail]>

What: Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) widgets
Where: From the contact
Description: Tk DAG display widget (computed in LISP and visualized in Tk).
    To be made available in May, 1993.
Contact: "Juergen Wagner" <[e-mail]>

What: Disjoint listbox selections (Ewing)
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/Listbox.patch.gz
    ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/MListbox-patch
Description: Tk 3.x listbox Disjoint selections.  MListbox-patch is
    specifically for Tk 3.6.
Contact: "Marc R. Ewing" <[e-mail]>
    "Heiko Schroeder" <[e-mail]>

What: Disjoint listbox selections (Ewing/Lutz)
Where: From the contact
Description: Port of Ewing's patch to the latest Tk.
Contact: "Dale Lutz" <[e-mail]>

What: Disjoint listbox selections (Raines)
Where: From the contact
Description: Code similar to that used by TkMail generalized.
Contact: "Paul E. Raines" <[e-mail]>

What: Disjoint listbox selections (Wunderli)
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/MListbox-patch
Description: Enables Tk 3.6 to have non-contiguous selections.
Contact: "Martin Andre Wunderli" <[e-mail]>

What: SunOS dld package
Where: From the contact
Description: Tcl front end for SunOS 4.x dynamic loading routines.
Contact: "Jean-Luc Chatelain" <[e-mail]>

What: Dynamic loading wish
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/dlwish.tar.gz
Description: Assists in building a wish with a load command which can
    be used to incorporate a Tcl/Tk library which has been
    dynamically linked and follows the Bollini format.  Has been
    superseded by shells-1.1.
Contact: "Michael D. Moore" <[e-mail]>

What: eiftcl
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/eiftcl.tar.gz
Description: Provide basic facilities for combining the programming
    languages Eiffel and Tcl into a hybrid program
    architecture.
Contact: "Stephan Herrmann" <[e-mail]>

What: Enabled Mail
Where: ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/mrose/safe-tcl/safe-tcl.tar.Z
Description: Incoming email processing tool based on Tcl.  Software
    also available which can build MIME messages and send them.
    Incoming email processing includes ability to execute
    encapsulated Tcl programs at delivery or upon viewing.
Contact: [e-mail]

What: every command
Where: From the contact
Description: Execute a command immediately and every n seconds thereafter.
Contact: "Bill Burdick" <[e-mail]>

What: file I/O as events
Where: From the contact
Description: A Tk file handler command which uses Tk_CreateFileHandler().
Contact: "Stuart Clayman" <[e-mail]

What: file select (da Silva)
Where: From the contact
Description: A Tk file selection procedure based on the Amiga standard
    file requestor.
Contact: "Peter da Silva" <[e-mail]>

What: file select (sherman)
Where: From the contact
Description: A "more over-developed file-selection mechanism".
Contact: "Aaron Sherman" <[e-mail]>

What: file select (Silva)
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/code/fileselect.tcl.gz
Description: file selector box
Contact: "Mario Jorge Silva" <[e-mail]>

What: Tk focus follows pointer
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/focus3.1a.PATCH.gz
Description: Tk 3.[12] patch to implement focus follows pointer and
    key propagation model.
Contact: "Kennard White" <[e-mail]>

What: font settings
Where: From the contact
Description: Tcl package "getfont" which returns a font matching request
    as closely as possible.
Contact: "Spencer W. Thomas" <[e-mail]>

What: foreach additional list enhancement
Where: From the contact
Description: Enhance the Tcl foreach to support more than one list.
Contact: "Wayne A. Christopher" <[e-mail]>

What: FSBox - file selection box
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/code/FSBox.tar.Z
    ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tkFSBox.tar.gz
Description: Tk 3.x File Selection dialog box
Contact: "Sven Delmas" <[e-mail]>

What: fumx
Where: ftp://ftp.dcs.gla.ac.uk/pub/glasgow-fp/authors/Duncan_Sinclair/fumx.*
Description: Tk/Tcl extention that allows it to front-end other languages.
Contact: "Duncan Sinclair" <[e-mail]>

What: GDBM Tcl interface (Doan)
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tclgdbm1.0.tar.gz
Description: A Tcl interface to the GNU dgm database software.
Contact: "Tuan Doan" <[e-mail]>

What: GDBM Tcl interface (Lindig)
Where: From the contact
Description: A rewrite of Doan's tclgdbm, removing some
    restrictions.
Contact: "Christian Lindig" <[e-mail]>

What: getdate
Where: From the contact
Description: Adds getdate command to tcl interpreter.
Contact: "Michael Hoegeman" <[e-mail]>

What: GLXAux bindings
Where: ftp://ftp.cs.princeton.edu:/incoming/dwallach/glxaux-1.0.tar.gz
Description: Set of Tcl bindings for most GL commands and
    Perl script to generate Tcl bindings given prototypes of
    C procedures.
Contact: "Dan Wallach" <[e-mail]>

What: graph
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/graph-1.1.tar.gz
Description: XY graphic plot and hypertext widgets for Tk 2.x
    The author/contact recommends you move to the BLT toolkit.
Contact: "George Howlett" <[e-mail]>

What: GRASS GIS widget
Where: From the contact
Description: Contact has an alpha version of a GRASS GIS display only
    widget.  Can display multiple themes in overlay or replace mode.
    More details when contact has progressed.
Contact: "Tom Moore" <[e-mail]> ,
    [e-mail] (GRASS Users' email list)

What: GroupKit
Where: ftp://ftp.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/pub/projects/grouplab/software/groupkit-2.3.tar.Z
    ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/groupkit-1.0.tar.gz
Description: Tcl/Tk based version of InterViews GroupKit.
Contact: "Saul Greenberg" <[e-mail]>,
    Mark Roseman <[e-mail]>

What: heirarchy class
Where: From the contact
Description: Mentioned in passing by a comp.lang.tcl poster as
    being related to a query made about collapsible hierarcy widgets.
    Not yet released.
Contact: "Phil Gordon" <[e-mail]>

What: HTML for Alpha
Where: From the contact.
Description: an early version of an HTML editing mode for
    the MacOS Tcl-based Alpha editor.
Contact: "Scott W Brim" <[e-mail]>

What: Hush
Where: ftp://ftp.cs.vu.nl/eliens/hush-1.2.tar.Z
    ftp://ftp.cs.vu.nl/eliens/hush-contrib-1.0.tar.Z
Description: C++ API for Tcl/Tk
Contact: "A Eliens" <[e-mail]>

What: iconbutton
Where: From the contact
Description: Tk 1.4 button widget which displays bitmap
Contact: "Trevor Lowe" <[e-mail]> ??

What: [incr Tcl]
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/itcl-1.3.tar.gz
Description: Set of extensions to support object-oriented programming in Tcl.
    Provides the notion of a class of objects, allowing related
    procedures to be encapsulated together with their shared data
    in a local namespace hidden from the rest of the program.
Contact: "Michael J. McLennan" <[e-mail]>

What: [incr Tcl] file selection dialog
Where: From the contact
Description: Motif-like file selection dialog using [incr Tcl].
Contact: "Mark L. Ulferts" <[e-mail]>

What: [incr Tcl] stacks and queues
Where: From the contact
Description: Stacks and queues implemented in [incr Tcl] arrays.
Contact: "David Megginson" <[e-mail]>

What: [incr Tcl] widget base class
Where: From the contact
Description: A modification of Pryce's widget base class to
    support proper destroy handling.
Contact: "Mark Sterin" <[e-mail]>

What: Informix interface
Where: From the contact
Description: Interface between Informix and Tcl/TK.
Contact: [e-mail]

What: Key List printing procedures
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/code/keylprint.tlib.Z
Description: Pretty printing TclX keylists for human consumption.
Contact: "Spencer W. Thomas" <[e-mail]>

What: Key symbol dynamic support
Where: From the contact
Description: patch to tkBind.c to look up non-standard Key symbols using Xlib.
Contact: "Nick Ing-Simmons" <[e-mail]>

What: Key symbols enhanced support
Where: From the contact
Description: Tk enhancement for additional keysym support.
Contact: "Michael Salmon" <[e-mail]>

What: Lamda pure Tcl functions - noble
Where: From the contact
Description: Provide support for unnamed procs in Tcl.
Contact: "R James Noble" <[e-mail]>

What: Lamda anonymous procedures - thomas
Where: From the contact
Description: Set of Tcl modifications to allow definition of anonymous
    (unnamed) procedures
Contact: "Spencer W. Thomas" <[e-mail]>

What: Lamda functions - Tromey
Where: From the contact
Description: Hack to the unknown function to provide a simple
    implementation of anonymous lamda functions.
Contact: "Tom Tromey" <[e-mail]>

What: Lamda functions - Wallach
Where: From the contact
Description: Simple proc to provide a lamda-like capability in Tcl.
Contact: "Dan Wallach" <[e-mail]>

What: lassign
Where: From the contact
Description: Assign elements of list to the given variables.
Contact: "Michael Halle" <[e-mail]>

What: Lightweight plotting to canvas
Where: From the contact
Description: Extension to TkPixmap to support plotting, clearning and
    copying of user-defined pixmaps to a canvas.
Contact: "Martin Smith" <[e-mail]>

What: Linear sort on list of lists
Where: From the contact
Description: Alphanumeric comparison for linear sort of lists.
Contact: "Matthew Newman" <[e-mail]>

What: lisp2wish (Kaye)
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/code/lisp2wish6.tar.Z
Description: Wish to Common Lisp interface
Contact: "Jonathan Kaye" <[e-mail]>

What: lisp2wish (Kramer)
Where: From the contact
Description: Common Lisp to tk interface
Contact: "Bryan M Kramer" <[e-mail]>

What: list select
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/listselect.tcl.gz
Description: Simple file selector
Contact: "Mario Jorge Silva" <[e-mail]>

What: list quicksort
Where: From the contactd
Description: short set of Tcl routines which implement the quicksort
    algorithm over lists using user-defined comparison function.
Contact: "Nat Pryce" <[e-mail]>

What: Metacanvas
Where: From the contact
Description: Tk extension to read and write canvas metafiles.
Contact: "Nat Pryce" <[e-mail]>

What: Moat
Where: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/tclMotif.1.1.tar.Z
    ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tclMotif.1.1.tar.gz
Description: A Tcl shell (moat) which uses Motif widgets rather than
    Tk widgets.  A mailing list is available on
    [e-mail] ; send a subscribe tclMotif <your name>
    line to join.
Contact: "Jan Newmarch" <[e-mail]>

What: moreButtons
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/moreButtons-1.0.tar.gz
Description: Small collection of extensions to Tk 3.4 which add a simple
    triangular button like the ones at the ends of scroll bar
    and a button which can have both bitmap and text.
Contact: "Daniel Simmons" <[e-mail]>

What: mouse button release command
Where: From the contact
Description: A Tk command to indicate explicitly that the mouse button
    has been released - resolves problems where local grabs and
    mouse button conflicts are encountered.
Contact: "Andy Golding" <[e-mail]>

What: Multibyte Support for Tk
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/patch-16bit.0.2.1.tar.gz
Description: Tk 3.2 support for 2 byte character strings.
Contact: "Kazuro Furukawa" <[e-mail]>

What: Multi-column menus for Tk 3.6
Where: From the contact
Description: Patch to implement multi-column menus for tk3.6.
Contact: "Thomas Schilz" <[e-mail]>

What: Multiple Extensions Management and Dynamic Linking
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/shells-1.1.tar.gz
Description: A small package for dynamic loading of Tcl/Tk extensions as
    suggested during the Tcl 93 Workshop.  Includes a basic Tcl shell,
    a modified wish shell, and a dynamic extension loader for SunOS.
Contact: "Alessandro Bollini" <[e-mail]>
    "Alessandro Rubini" <[e-mail]>

What: Multiple interpreter support
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/minterp-0.9.tar.gz
Description: Create/control Multiple Interpreters from TCL, and also
    Object Oriented Programming.
Contact: "David Herron" <[e-mail]>

What: Nautilus
Where: From the contact
Description: A browser for [incr tcl] classes.
Contact: [e-mail]

What: net CDF
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/net_tcl.tar.gz
Description: Tcl wish with hooks for netCDF (??)
Contact: Unknown

What: Network Management / SNMP
Where: ftp://nexus.yorku.ca/pub/tcl_snmp/
    ftp://ftp.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/pub/languages/tcl/contrib/tcl_snm/
    ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tcl_curses.shar.gz
Description: An initial implementation of an API for SNMP.  This is currently
    being reworked in the light of SNMPv2.  Please check with the mail-
    server for current status.  Send a help line to the mailserver
    for details of signing up for the SNMP tcl mailing list.
    Also note that packages such as
    tcl_curses, tcl_dbm, tcl_mib, tclnm, and tcl_snmp or tk_snmp
    are available.
    Contact the mailing list to ask for details.
Contact: "Mailing service daemon" <[e-mail]>

What: NeXTSTEP / Tcl interface (Johnson)
Where: ftp://media.mit.edu/pub/WavesWorld/WW1.0B2Complete.tar
    ftp://media.mit.edu/pub/WavesWorld/WW1.0B2SrcOnly.tar
Description: This is a strictly NeXTSTEP interface.  One of the two palettes
    included in this release is WWTCLWidgets one take on how to integrate
    Tcl into the NeXTSTEP development environment.
    The other palette makes use of the Tcl widget pallette.
    The other WavesWorld palettes, on media.mit.edu:pub/WavesWorld,
    integrate Tcl into IB, complete with a suite of UI objects,
    and a 3D modeling language called eve, which is basically tcl with a
    full RenderMan binding.  The WWTCLWidgetsPalette includes a WWTCLInterp,
    which is an objective-C wrapper around a Tcl interp.
Contact: "Michael B. Johnson" <[e-mail]>

What: NextStep / Tcl MAB
Where: ftp://cs.orst.edu/pub/next/submissions/
Description: A Tcl 7.3 MAB - unfortunately, I don't speak NextStep so
    that's about all I know.
Contact: Unknown

What: NIS+ interface library
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/nistcl-0.02.tar.gz
    ftp://csi.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/tcl/nistcl-0.01.tar.gz
Description: Super pre-alpha release of a TCL interface SunOS 5.x NIS+ library.
Contact: "Matt Wette" <[e-mail]>

What: Objective C / Tcl library
Where: ftp://cs.rochester.edu/pub/libcoll/libtclobjc-0.1.tar.gz
    ftp://ftp.informatic.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Developer/resources/libraries/
Description: A library consists of objects and support functions for
    communicating between Objective-C and Tcl/Tk.  From Tcl you can send
    messages to Objective-C objects and get textual representations of
    what's returned.  The library requires gcc-2.5.2 or higher,
    tcl-7.3, tk-3.6, libcoll-931026, libreadline and GNU make.
Contact: "R. Andrew McCallum" <[e-mail]>

What: Open Scripting Architecture (Apple) Extension
Where: ftp://ftp.msen.com/pub/vendor/ice
Description: Mac tickle extension for Apple's OSA communication.
Contact: Tim Endres

What: OpenWindows tkBind mod
Where: From the contact
Description: One line patch to change the Alt modifier from using Mod2
    to using Mod4.
Contact: "Johnson Michael Earls" <[e-mail]>

What: Oracle extension to Tcl.
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/oratcl-2.11.tar.gz
Description: Provide access to a Oracle Database server from within Tcl.
    Based on Tcl 7.3.
Contact: "Tom Poindexter" <[e-mail]> or
    "Tom Poindexter" <[e-mail]>

What: Pacco (Pavia Active-Component Compound Objects)
Where: ftp://iride.unipv.it/pub/Pacco/pacco-0.6.tz
    ftp://iride.unipv.it/pub/Pacco/pacco-docs-0.6.tz
Description: A way to manage binary objects in a distributed environment.
    Adds image display capabilities to the tk widget set.
    Uses Tcl 7.3/Tk 3.6, and prefers use of the shells-1.1 environment.
Contact: "Alessandro Rubini" <[e-mail]>
    [e-mail] (Alberto Biancardi)

What: Pack widget with no shrink option
Where: From the contact
Description: Code to add a noshrink option to Pack so that each button
    can be the same size.
Contact: "Brent Welch" <[e-mail]>

What: package extension
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/package0.1.patch.gz
Description: Tcl 7 extension to allow collections of related variables
    and procedures.
Contact: "Cimarron Taylor" <[e-mail]>

What: Password widget
Where: From the contact
Description: Tk entry box widget which does not show it's contents.
    Should appear in tkauxlib 2.0.
Contact: "Kevin B. Kenny" <[e-mail]>

What: Pie menus
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/code/tkpie.tar.Z
Description: Menus presented as a slice of a pie rather than a box.
Contact: "Don Hopkins" <[e-mail]>

What: Pixel position of a character
Where: From the contact
Description: Get the pixel positions of characters.
Contact: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <[e-mail]>

What: Photo widget
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/photo-2.4.tar.gz
    ftp://dcssoft.anu.edu.au/pub/tk/photo-2.4.tar.Z
Description: widget which displays a monochrome or color image using dithering
Contact: "Paul Mackerras" <[e-mail]>

What: Pixmap support
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/TkPixmap3.6d.tar.gz
    ftp://coma.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/tcl/extensions/TkPixmap3.6d.tar.Z
Description: Tk 3.x tkBitmap.c modification to support pixmap images with
    -bitmap option.  Supports Xpm3, bitmap, and gif.
Contact: "Sven Delmas" <[e-mail]>

What: Postgres extensions
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/PQTcl.tar.gz
Description: C and C++ versions of interface to the UCB libPQ Postgres
    relational database.
Contact: "Robin J. Maxwell" <[e-mail]>

What: procedure tracing
Where: From the contact
Description: Tcl procedure tracing package.
Contact: "Brian Smith" <[e-mail]>

What: Prolog / Tcl interface
Where: ftp://clement.info.umoncton.ca/pub/BinProlog/BinProlog.2.20.tar.gz
Description: Prolog environment which allows one to also manipulate
    Tcl and Tk objects.
Contact: [e-mail].

What: pset
Where: From the contact
Description: Proc which allows a parallel set command.  Note that at least
    two versions of this were posted.
Contact: "Ted Dunning" <[e-mail]>

What: PV-WAVE interface
Where: From the contact
Description: Tcl interfaces to PV-WAVE.
Contact: "Joe VanAndel" <[e-mail]>

What: Eichin random numbers
Where: From the contact
Description: Tcl random number generator using Knuth 3.6 algorithm to
    generate 16 bit numbers.
Contact: "Mark Eichin" <[e-mail]>

What: Libes random numbers
Where: From the contact
Description: Modified Samon random function for better behavior.
Contact: "Don Libes" <[e-mail]>

What: Salmon random numbers
Where: From the contact
Description: Tk script displaying Salmon random function.
Contact: "Glen Fullmer" <[e-mail]>

What: Schoenwaelder random numbers
Where: From the contact
Description: Simple Tcl script to generate random numbers.
Contact: "Juergen Schoenwaelder" <[e-mail]>

What: structure like objects in Tcl
Where: From the contact
Description: A Tcl command that lets you use arrays similarly to structs.
Contact: "Bill Burdick" <[e-mail]>

What: readline-like function support for tcl
Where: From the contact
Description: Mods to tclMain to provide support for the GNU readline
    interface or with a few changes another similar interface.
Contact: "Roger West" <[e-mail]>

What: readline-like function support for tk - miguel
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tk_readline-1.2.patch.gz
Description: Tk 3.6 patches for GNU readline support.
Contact: "Miguel de Icaza" <[e-mail]>

What: RenderMan bindings
Where: From the contact
Description: Set of bindings to external RenderMan toolkit.
Contact: "Michael B. Johnson" <[e-mail]>

What: Reregister interpreter name
Where: From the contact (or from the mxedit source code)
Description: Code allows user to change the name of the interpreter.
Contact: "Brent Welch" <[e-mail]>

What: Safe Tcl Interpreter
Where: From the contact
Description: Tcl cmds to provide some level of security.
Contact: "Karl Lehenbauer" <[e-mail]>

What: searchbox
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/code/searchbox-1.0.1.tar.Z
Description: Tk widget written that provides Emacs-like searching bindings
    and incremental, exact and regular expression searching
    abilities to Tk text widgets.
Contact: "Tom Phelps" <[e-mail]>

What: secure tcl
Where: From the contact
Description: Extension to provide a send message evaluator
Contact: "Thomas A Fine" <[e-mail]>

What: Scheme-based Tk
Where: ftp://kaolin.unice.fr/pub/STk-1.00.tar.gz
Description: Implementation of Tk replacing Tcl with Scheme.
Contact: "Gallesio Erick" <[e-mail]>

What: showproc.tcl
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/code/showproc.tcl.Z
Description: A new showproc
Contact: "Lance Ellinghouse" <[e-mail]>

What: SIPP extensions
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tsipp-3.0c.tar.gz
    ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/distrib/tsipp3.0c.tar.Z
Description: 3D rendering toolkit for Tcl and Tk based on the SImple
    Polygon Processor (SIPP)
Contact: "Mark Diekhans" <[e-mail]>

What: Spreadsheet
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/code/newspread.tar.Z
Description: Tk spreadsheet like widget, built using canvas and text
    widgets.
Contact: "Craig Struble" <[e-mail].>

What: SQL support
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/isqltcl.tar.gz
    ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/sql_tcl.tar.gz
Description: A standard document for adding SQL support in Tcl and
    full blown support for INFORMIX in Tcl/Tk.  Now at version 2.1.
Contact: "Srinivas Kumar" <[e-mail]>

What: System V ipc
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/svipc-2.1.1.tar.gz
Description: Tcl interface to System V IPC facilities.  Supports
    Tcl 7.3, Tk 3.6, TclX 7.3a.
Contact: "Joe Kelsey" <[e-mail]>

What: Sybase Tcl
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/sybtcl-2.11.tar.gz
Description: Tcl 7.3 interface to Sybase database server, using SQL.
    Also requires the Sybase Open Client (DB-Library) package.
Contact: "Tom Poindexter" <[e-mail]>
    "Tom Poindexter" <[e-mail]>

What: tcl2array
Where: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/pub/hpcc-papers/touch/tcl2array.tar.Z
Description: This package assists a developer in creating stand-alone
    tk/tcl applications.  This treats Tcl/Tk as truely embedded - the
    user of an application using this package won't have to install
    Tcl/Tk before using the application.
Contact: "Joe Touch" <[e-mail]>

What: tclcompare
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tclcompare.gz
Description: Compare two lists for equality
Contact: "David Herron" <[e-mail]>

What: tcl and tk shared library support (Brown)
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tk3.6.sharedlibs.patch.gz
    ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tcl7.3.sharedlibs.patch.gz
Description: Set of patches which assume you use gcc 2.x.x which supports
    the -shared option
Contact: "Philip Brown" <[e-mail]>

What: tcl and tk shared library support (Salmon)
Where: From the contact
Description: Patches to Makefile.in that allows both HP/UX and SunOS 4
    to build shared libraries.
Contact: "Michael Salmon" <[e-mail]>

What: tcl and tk shared library support (Zhu)
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/code/tcltk_shlib0.4.tar.Z
Description: new Makefile.in files for Tcl and Tk to support
    building both shared and static libraries.
Contact: "Xiaokun Zhu" <[e-mail]>

What: tcl debugger (libes)
Where: ftp://ftp.cme.nist.gov/pub/expect/tcl-debug.tar.Z
    ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/code/tcl-debug.tar.gz
Description: Tcl debugger patterned after gdb and dbx which can be added
    easily to any Tcl/Tk application.
Contact: "Don Libes" <[e-mail]>

What: tcl debugger (extended tcl)
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tcl.debugger.gz
Description: tclX source level limited debugger (patch to tclX)
Contact: "Karl Lehenbauer" <[e-mail]>

What: Tcl-DP
Where: ftp://mm-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/multimedia/Tcl-DP/tcl-dp3.1.tar.Z
    ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tcl-dp3.1.tar.gz
    ftp://hplyot.obspm.fr/tcl/mirrors/tcl-dp/
    ftp://ftp.ibp.fr/pub/tcl/contrib/extensions/
Description: Tcl Distributed Programming - a public domain extension
    which adds TCP/IP connection management, remote
    procedure call and distributed object protocols to Tcl/Tk.
    Version 3.0 is a major rewrite.
Contact: [e-mail] or
    [e-mail]

What: Tcl extension tools
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/majorminor.tar.gz
Description: Extension to provide a development environment to ease
    implementing new commands within Tcl/Tk.
Contact: "David Herron" <[e-mail]>

What: Tcl getopt - earls
Where: From the contact
Description: A Tcl-based getopt function.
Contact: "Johnson Michael Earls" <[e-mail]>

What: Tcl getopt - mangin
Where: From the contact
Description: A Tcl based getopt function.
Contact: "Frank Mangin" <[e-mail]>

What: Tcl getopt - roydhouse
Where: From the contact
Description: A Tcl getopt function with expanded options.
Contact: "Aaron Roydhouse" <[e-mail]>

What: Tcl IPC interface
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tclipc1-0.tar.gz
Description: Implements Tk's send command without requiring Tk or X11.
Contact: "Kim Gillies" <[e-mail]>

What: Tcl modifications to support threads
Where: From the contact
Description: A set of changes to Tcl 7.3 to make it more thread-sturdy.
Contact: "Earl Chew" <[e-mail]>

What: tclIV
Where: ftp://ftp.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/pub/roseman/tclIV.tar.Z
Description: Tk wrappers for InterViews 3.1 widgets.
Contact: "Mark Roseman" <[e-mail]>

What: tclMIDI
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tclm-1.0.tar.gz
    ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tclMIDI0.1.tar.gz
    ftp://ftp.sterling.com/usenet/comp.sources.misc/packages/tclm
    other comp.sources.misc archives
Description: Tclm is Tcl extended with Standard MIDI file manipulation
    commands.  Note that a new version, renamed tclmidi-2.0, is now
    in beta testing.  It has been rewritten in C++.  It will be built
    around tcl7.3.
Contact: "Mike Durian" <[e-mail]>

What: tclOBST
Where: ftp://ftp.fzi.de/pub/OBST/OBST3-3/
Description: Tcl library for the OBST persistent object management system.
Contact: [e-mail]

What: Tcl Packages
Where: ftp://toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu/pub/TclPackage.tar.Z
Description: Provide ability to create enclosed groups of code which the
    user can load as a unit.
Contact: "Patrick C. Beard" <[e-mail]>

What: Tcl Packages simplified
Where: ftp://ftp.fzi.de/pub/OBST/OBST3-3/tclshells.tar.Z
    ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/tclOBST-1.1.tar.gz
Description: Small support package which simplifies building a
    customized Tcl/Tk interpreter.
Contact: [e-mail]

What: tclprof
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tclprof.shar.gz
Description: Tcl performance profiling facility.  Works with Tcl 6.4.
    Comes as a part of tclX, but does not require it.
Contact: "Mark Diekhans" <[e-mail]>

What: tclRawTCP
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tclRawTCP.shar.gz
Description: Raw TCP package for Tcl/Tk based on tcpConnect
Contact: "Vivek Khera" <[e-mail]>

What: tclsockets
Where: From the contact
Description: Tcl extension to BSD sockets
Contact: "Lance Ellinghouse" <[e-mail]>

What: Tcl SQL
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tclsql-1.0.tar.gz
Description: tclsql is a Tcl interface  to  SQL
    (Structured  Query Language).  Tclsql is probably INGRES 6.4
    specific, but it could be ported  to  other  SQL  platforms.
Contact: "Christopher Hylands" <[e-mail]> ??

What: tclTCP
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tclTCP2.0.tar.gz
Description: Tcl BSD socket library extension
Contact: "Joe VanAndel" <[e-mail]>

What: Tcl/Tk Japanized; support for Kanji
Where: ftp://srawgw.sra.co.jp/pub/lang/tcl/jp/tcl7.3jp-update1.gz
    ftp://srawgw.sra.co.jp/pub/lang/tcl/jp/tk3.6jp-update1.gz
    ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tcl7.3jp-patch.gz
    ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tcl7.3jp-update1.gz
    ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tk3.6jp-patch.gz
    ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tk3.6jp-update1.gz
Description: Patch to enable Tk/Tcl to use Kanji.
Contact: "Japanized Tcl Project" <[e-mail]>

What: tclvogle
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tclvogle.tar.gz
    ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tclvogleDOCS.tar.gz
    ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/vogleWish.sun4.exe.gz
Description: Tk [23]-D drawing widgets (alpha)
Contact: "Mike Hoegeman" <[e-mail]>

What: tcl_object
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tcl_object.tar.gz
Description: C++ code which allows you to develop a bi-directional interface
    to Tcl.  Especially designed for using with the xf interface
    builder.
Contact: "Stephan Herrmann" <[e-mail]>

What: tcl_streams
Where: From the contact
Description: System V stream I/O library for Tcl
Contact: "Peter da Silva" <[e-mail]>

What: Extended Tcl (tclX)
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tclX7.3a-p2.tar.gz
    ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/distrib/tclX7.3a-p2.tar.Z
Description: An essential package of extensions for Tcl.  Version 7.3a
    is compatible with Tcl 7.3/Tk 3.6.
    Adds advanced code loading facility, new programming constructs,
    debugging and profiling facilities, unix access commands, file
    i/o facilities including awk-like scanning for strings, extended
    list and a new key list capability, extended character and
    string manipulation commands, and time and date manipulation
    commands.
Contact: [e-mail]

What: tclX dynamic library patches
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tclX_dld.shar.gz
Description: Patches to tclX to support GNU dld (v. 3.2.3) dynamic libraries.
Contact: "Adrian J Ho" <[e-mail]>

What: tclX / Tk merge
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tclX-tk2.0.shar.gz
Description: Replacement files to incorporate tclX with Tk 2.x
Contact: "Mark Diekhans" <[e-mail]>

What: tclXt
Where: posted to comp.lang.tcl - other locations unknown
Description: Tk hooks to allow calls to Xt routines.
Contact: Unknown

What: tclXtsend
Where: ftp://csc.canberra.edu.au/pub/motif/tclXtSend/tclXtSend.1.0.tar.Z
    ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/tclXtSend.1.0.tar.Z
Description: Allow Xt applications to send msgs to Tk applications.
Contact: "Jan Newmarch" <[e-mail]>

What: tcpConnect
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tcpConnect.shar.gz
Description: Tcl/Tk TCP connect and Tk file handler extensions
Contact: "Pekka Nikander" <[e-mail]>

What: TDebug
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/code/tdebug-0.9.tar.gz
Description: Tk debugger one sources into their scripts.  Allows single
    stepping, etc.
Contact: "Gregor Schmid" <[e-mail]>

What: text widget 16 bit text support
Where: http://srg01.csd.hku.hk:8000/~ypyau/chinese-patch-for-tk
    http://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/chinese-patch-for-tk.patch.gz
Descritpion: tkFonts.c change to make it display Chinese text.
Contact: "Carl Y.P. Yau" <[e-mail]>

What: text widget enhancements
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/code/text.constrained.shar
Description: A variety of constrained Tk text widget, placing a set of
    wrappers around the text widget.
Contact: "John Robert LoVerso" <[e-mail]>

What: text widget improved bindings
Where: From the contact
Description: Improved text widget bindings, allowing you to get the
    pixel XY coordinates of an index, move up and down one display
    line, and select text using shift cursor movements.
Contact: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <[e-mail]>

What: text widget underline colors
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/TextUnderline.patch.gz
Description: Modification to text widget to support color for tagged text
    and different color for underline.
Contact: "Francois-Xavier Fornari" <[e-mail]>

What: theObjects
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/theObjects-3.1.tar.gz
Description: Small prototype-oriented object system.
Contact: "Juergen Wagner" <[e-mail]>

What: Tix widget set
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/Tix3.6a.tar.gz
Description: FileSelectBox, ComboBox, LabelFrame, ScrolledListBox
    DialogButtons widgets and more, all implemented in Tcl scripts.
    Includes more Motif-like bindings as well.
    Also includes a paper on writing Tk widgets in Tcl.
Contact: "Ioi Kim Lam" <[e-mail].>

What: Tk without X (beta)
Where: ftp://toe.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/multimedia/misc/tknx0.3.tar.Z
Description: A version of Tk without the X dependent code.  Allows the
    construction of programs using send, after and a few of the
    other non-X specific commands.  Useful to use with Tcl-DP.
Contact: "Brian Smith" <[e-mail]>

What: Tk auxilary library of bindings
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tkauxlib.tar.gz
Description: Extensive set of Tk enhancements to add more Motif
    compatibility in keyboard bindings, as well as add validation
    capabilities and other things.
Contact: "Kevin B. Kenny" <[e-mail]>

What: tk Bell and Cutbuffer patches
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/bellcut3.2.pat
    ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/bellcut.shar.gz
    ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tkBellCutbuffer.shar.gz
Description: Tk 3.2, 2.3, and 2.1 patches to add bell and cutbuffer commands.
Contact: "Jim Davis" <[e-mail]>
    [e-mail] (Richard Ohnemus)

What: Tk Canvas Segments
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tkCanSeg.patch.gz
Description: Create a Canvas Segment object which is one or more disjoint
    line segments.  A version for Tk 3.3b1 is also available.
Contact: "Scott Schwartz" <[e-mail]>

What: Tk Emacs bindings
Where: From the contact
Description: A set of Tk bindings for Text and Entry widgets to look like
    Emacs.  This includes a kill ring, keyboard macros, undo,
    numeric prefixes and multikey chords.
Contact: "Mark Weissman" <[e-mail]>

What: Tk Emacs widget
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/TkEmacs1.3.tar.gz
Description: Emacs widget for the Tk widget set.  Allows emacs-lisp code to
    be sent to emacs and Tcl code to be sent from emacs to Tcl.
    Works with tk2.3 and tk3.0 (and should work with tk3.1 when it
    is available).  Contains patches for GNU Emacs 18.58 and 18.59.
Contact: "Sven Delmas" <[e-mail]>

What: tkCanvSeg
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tkCanvSeg.patch.gz
Description: Patch to Tk 3.2 to add canvas segments, which allows one
    to draw disjoint line segments more quickly.
Contact: "Scott Schwartz" <[e-mail]>

What: tkFScale
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tkFScale-1.4.tar.gz
Description: Tk 3.3 Scale widget which uses floating-point values.
Contact: "Paul Mackerras" <[e-mail]>

What: tkGLXwin
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tkGLXwin-1.3.2.tar.gz
    ftp://media.mit.edu/pub/tkGLXwin-1.3.2.tar.Z
Description: Tk 3.x Silicon Graphics Graphics Library widget interface.
Contact: "Michael Halle" <[e-mail]>

What: TkSteal
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/TkSteal3.6b.tar.gz
Description: Package to allow embedding of external applications
    (like emacs, ghostscript, xterm, etc.) into a Tk widget
    without changing the application.  Replaces TkEmacs.
Contact: [e-mail]

What: tk-mod.shar
Where: From the contact
Description: Alternative geometry managers for Tk 1.4
Contact: [e-mail]

What: TkIcon
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/TkIcon3.6a.tar.gz
Description: An extension to the canvas widget that adds native support
    for icons, edges and graphs.
Contact: "Sven Delmas" <[e-mail]>

What: tkInput
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tkInput.tar.gz
Description: A transparent input-only Tk widget.
Contact: "Mark G. Christenson" <[e-mail]>

What: TkMegaWidget
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/TkMegaWidget3.6a.tar.gz
Description: Support new Tcl/Tk widgets allowing you to attach minor commands
    and options to a widget, or even a private interpreter.
Contact: "Sven Delmas" <[e-mail]>

What: Tk menu insert subcommand
Where: From the contact
Description: Tk 3.6 menu widget insert subcommand allowing you to
    insert anywhere in the menu.
Contact: "Tom Tromey" <[e-mail]>

What: Tk menu postcommand fix
Where: From the contact
Description: Tk 3.6 tkMenu -postcommand fix for keeping menu on-screen.
Contact: "Tom Tromey" <[e-mail]>

What: tk mwm enhancements
Where: From the contact
Description: Tk patches to allow you to set the mwm decoration, add
    protocols to the mwm menus, etc.
Contact: "Ioi Kim Lam" <[e-mail]>

What: Tk Perl 4
Where: ftp://ftp.ira.uka.de/pub/misc/tkperl-0.010.tar.z
    ftp://ftp.cis.ufl.edu/pub/perl/src/tkperl/tkperl-0.010.tar.z
Description: An attempt to rewrite Tk under native Perl 4.x.
Contact: [e-mail],
    [e-mail] <Guenther Schreiner>

What: Tk Perl 5
Where: ftp://black.ox.ac.uk/src/ALPHA/tkperl5a1.tar.gz
Description: An attempt to rewrite Tk under native Perl 5.x, using its
    object oriented features and with callbacks/tracing not involving
    Tcl.
Contact: "Malcolm Beattie" <[e-mail]>

What: Tk private color maps
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/TkPC0.03.tar.gz
Description: Add private colormaps to Tk.
Contact: "Rainer Kliese" <[e-mail]>

What: tk RichText Format widget
Where: ftp://multimedia.cc.gatech.edu/pub/tk-rtf-0.1.tar.Z
Description: Tk based Microsoft RichText File Format widget reader (pre-alpha).
Contact: "Ian Smith" <[e-mail]>

What: tkText (Tk 1.3 compatible - Cole)
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tkText-inst.tar.gz
Description: A Tk 1.3 tkText text widget and installation patches
Contact: "Derrick C. Cole" <[e-mail]>

What: tkText (Tk 1.3 compatible - Christenson)
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tkText.shar.gz
Description: A Tk 1.3 tkText text widget
Contact: "M. G. Christenson" <[e-mail]>

What: tkText (Tk 2.0 compatible)
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tkText-2.0.tar.gz
Description: A Tk 2.0 tkText text widget
Contact: "M. G. Christenson" <[e-mail]>

What: TkWindow access
Where: From the contact
Description: Trivial function to get at the Tk_Window of an event.
Contact: "Nick Ing-Simmons" <[e-mail]>

What: tk equivalent of XTextWidth
Where: From the contact
Description: Tk wrapper for XTextWidth that computes the width of
    a medium width character in pixels.
Contact: "John May" <[e-mail]>

What: Tooltalk interface
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/toocl-1.4.tar.gz
    ftp://avahi.inria.fr/pub/toocl.tar.gz
Description: A Tcl/Tk interface to Tooltalk, based on Tcl 6.7 and Tk 3.2a.
Contact: "Cedric Beust" <[e-mail]>

What: Transportable Objects
Where: From the contact
Description: A [incr Tcl] class implementing a base transportable object class.
Contact: "Donald Edgar - SUN Scotland" <[e-mail]> ??

What: tree widget (brighton)
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tree3.6.tar.gz
Description: Tk 3.6 based widget for displaying dynamic trees,
    written in C++.
Contact: "Allan Brighton" <[e-mail]>

What: tree widget (richardson)
Where: ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/tcl/code/hierQuery.tcl.gz
Description: Tk 3.3 based tree display widget, used by XF now.
Contact: "david richardson" <[e-mail]>

What: turtle graphics
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/code/TkTurtle-1.0.shar.Z
Description: Extended Tcl/Tk simple Logo-like turtle graphics package.
Contact: "R James Noble" <[e-mail]>

What: validate
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/code/validate.shar.Z
Description: example of using bindings to validate entry widget data.
Contact: "Joe VanAndel" <[e-mail]>

What: varframe
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/varframe.tar.gz
Description: Extension to provide variable environment language-visible
    objects (user defined call frames) within Tcl.
Contact: "Cimarron Taylor" <[e-mail]>

What: VUM widgets
Where: From the contact
Descriptions: Tk bargraph, dial, pie, strip chart widgets.
    Steve just ported the widgets to the latest Tcl/Tk.
Contact: "Steve Hocking" <[e-mail]>

What: warp
Where: From the contact
Description: Tk warp command to move the mouse point to specific locations.
Contact: "Thomas A Fine" <[e-mail]>

What: widgetTree
Where: From the contact
Description: Provide the ability to describe a tree of widgets to ease
    creation, etc.  Also includes matrix, a widget which supports a two
    dimensional plane of widgets or widget trees.
Contact: "Hiroshi Sakoh" <[e-mail]>

What: wincr
Where: From the contact
Description: A Tcl 'word' increment command - increment string 'aa' to
    'ab', 'ac', etc.
Contact: "Bill Bumgarner" <[e-mail]>

What: wmstuff
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/wmstuff.tar.gz
    ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/wmstuff.patch1.shar.gz
Description: Tk support for ICCCM WM_PROTOCOLS & WM_DELETE
Contact: "Mike Hoegeman" <[e-mail]>

What: X11 Selection support enhancement
Where: ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/tcl/extensions/tk_select_patch.gz
Description: Tk 3.6 Patch for non-XA_PRIMARY selections.  Useful for
    cut and paste support between Tk and XView toolkit-based tools.
Contact: "Nick Ing-Simmons" <[e-mail]>

What: X11 visual selection subcommand
Where: From the contact
Description: Adds a -visual subcommand to Tk's frame and top-level widgets.
Contact: "Paul Mackerras" <[e-mail]>

What: X11 XID enhancement - kaplan
Where: From the contact
Description: Set of replacement functions for default X Consortium XID
    management routines.
Contact: "George C. Kaplan" <[e-mail]>

What: X11 XID enhancement - hoegeman
Where: From the contact
Description: tkXID function to allow tk to override the default
    XID allocation scheme. Add included header to tk.h and tkInt.h
    to have it used by libtk.a.
Contact: "Michael Hoegeman" <[e-mail]>

What: Xt replay library
Where: ftp://csc.canberra.edu.au/pub/motif/replayXt/replayXt.*.tar.z
    ftp://harbor.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/motif/replayXt/replayXt.*.tar.z
Description: A library with one entry point that allows an Intrinsics
    or Xt based application to be executed from a script file.
    In particular, Athena or Motif toolkit applications
    can be played back.  Scripts are written in Tcl.
Contact: "Jan Newmarch" <[e-mail]>

What: XView Drop support
Where: From the contact
Description: First hack at receiving XView drops in Tk.
Contact: "Nick Ing-Simmons" <[e-mail]>


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From: FAQ Tcl/Tk Package Catalog
Subject: -XIV- Is there any commercial use of Tcl/Tk?

NeoSoft Communications Services <[e-mail]>, [phone],
9am - 4pm CDT M-F - provides commercial support for developing Tcl
applications, in short-term hourly, long-term hourly, or fixed-price
variations.  They have long term experience with Tcl.  The
also provide training, porting, bug fixing and independent software
development.

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4200 S. I-10 Service Road, Suite #205, Metairie, LA 70001 )
offer courses on Tcl and Tk amoung other things.

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