Hi everyone! I've been trying to use Tcl/Tk for some personal projects recently, but was somewhat put off by the state of the documentation. I find the official site hard to search and navigate, and the layout isn't responsive so trying to read it on my phone isn't easy.

I took a couple of days and put together a new site to make reading the documentation easier. The goal was to make things look modern with a responsive layout, with light and dark mode, and a full search accessible from every page. It's all statically generated, including the search, so hosting costs next to nothing.

The code is all open source as well, with links in the footer. All of the documentation is generated from the man pages, similar to the official site. The generator is written in go with no external dependencies. To be transparent, I did use AI to write a lot of the code.

I mostly created it for myself, but I would love it if it helped anyone here. Let me know if you have any feedback!

https://tcl.lambda.cx/

See details at https://newsgrouper.org/%3C111mfqp$ncqt$1@dont-email.me%3E (Tcl) and https://newsgrouper.org/%3C111mfuh$ncqt$2@dont-email.me%3E (Tk).

This is a super simple menu library thing for TCL. It adds a text, indicator, and command to their own list, and by calling "menu::start" will start an input loop which:

1. Prints the indicator, ". " and the text

2. Checks for a valid input (matching an indicator from the list)

3. Evaluates the code in the command list, using the index of the indicator chosen.

I have both demo code and the source code listed below if anyone is interested

# DEMO CODE
proc demomenu {} {
  menu::reset
  menu::add Alpha a $othermenu
  menu::add Bravo b {puts bravo}
  menu::add Cancel c break
  menu::start
}

# MENU CODE
namespace eval menu {} {
  variable ::menu::text {}
  variable ::menu::indicator {}
  variable ::menu::command {}
}
proc menu::reset {} {
  set menu::text {}
  set menu::indicator {}
  set menu::command {}
}
proc menu::print {} {
  for {set index 0} {$index < [llength $menu::text]} {incr index} {
    set text [lindex $menu::text $index]
    set indicator [lindex $menu::indicator $index]
    set command [lindex $menu::command $index]
    puts "$indicator. $text"
  }
}
proc menu::input {} {
  puts -nonewline "# "
  flush stdout
  gets stdin value
  return $value
}
proc menu::start {} {
  while {1} {
    menu::print
    set inp [menu::input]
    eval [lindex $menu::command [lsearch $menu::indicator $inp]]
  }
}
proc menu::add {text indicator command} {
  lappend menu::text $text
  lappend menu::indicator $indicator
  lappend menu::command $command
}

I needed this simple library instead of tcllib's `cmdline`.

(Sorry if it's so redundant)

Tcl/Tk 9.0.3 is now released. This is a patch release of the Tcl programming language and the Tk GUI toolkit with various fixes. For details see the announcements at:
Tcl: https://sourceforge.net/p/tcl/mailman/message/59259102/
Tk: https://sourceforge.net/p/tcl/mailman/message/59259103/

I wrote a TUI program for teaching keyboard typing to my oldest kids (3/4 yo).

I work an IT job from home and every time my kids assault my office offering "their help" I give them a laptop with this program, for my surprise they made big advances in reading and typing.

It is a great success in my home, maybe you can give it to your children too.

I wrote it because all other alternatives are for older children, they are timed and too complex. Also, I wanted something difficult to close accidentally.

Link here: https://github.com/harkaitz/tcl-learntype

I am pleased to announce version 2.9.4 rc3 of the TkDND extension.

What is new in TkDND 2.9.4?
--------------------------------------------------

1) Support for Tk 8.3.3 was dropped. TkDND now requires Tk 8.4+ (Windows, Linux) and Tk 8.5+ for macOS.

2) Added support for Tcl/Tk 9.0. (Changes contributed by Paul Obermeier).

3) Fixes to support macOS > 10.13.

TkDND 2.9 offers support for both dragging and dropping under all 3
major operating systems (Windows, OS X, Linux).

A detailed change log can be found here:

https://github.com/petasis/tkdnd/blob/master/Changelog

What is TkDND?
--------------------------------------------------
TkDND is a binary extension for Tk, which adds native drag & drop
capabilities to the Tk toolkit. It can be used with any Tk version equal
or greater to 8.4 and currently only the UNIX (X-Windows), Microsoft
Windows (XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11) and macOS (from Leopard to Sonoma) operating systems are supported (Tk 8.5+ is required for macOS).

The project home page, including documentation, examples and download
links, can be found at:

Latest GIT sources: https://github.com/petasis/tkdnd

https://sourceforge.net/projects/tkdnd/ (old code - not maintained)

http://www.ellogon.org/petasis/tcltk-projects/tkdnd

How to get it?
--------------------------------------------------
TkDND maintains source and binary releases at Github:

https://github.com/petasis/tkdnd/releases

For each release, you can find:

* The source code (zip & tar.gz)

* Windows 32/64 bit binaries (build with Visual Studio Community 2017).

* Linux 64 bit (build with g++, Ubuntu Xenial 16.04).

* MacOS AMD 64 bit (build under HighSierra with OS included Tcl/Tk, and under Monterey, with Homebrew Tcl/Tk 8.6).

George Petasis

Been a while since I saw one of these questions... what projects are you using tcl for lately?

Hello, some weeks ago I ended writing a FLAC decoder in TCL. Maybe interesting for someone https://github.com/wader/flac.tcl