http://www.tclscripting.com/index.htmlLatest entries on tclscripting.comenbryan.oakley@gmail.comCopyright 2006 Bryan Oakley2006-11-14T19:12:09-06:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 05:31:23 -0500bryan.oakley@gmail.comHome2006-11-14T19:12:09-06:00http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-30http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-30
If you get the same error, try parsing the results using list commands rather than dict. Perhaps the data being parsed with dict in the example isn't a valid dict value. Since every web service will return data in a different format, it doesn't affect the main point of the article which was to show how easy it is to make calls to web services. I may be hard to parse the data, but it's easy to get the data. :-\]]>bryan.oakley@gmail.comHome2006-11-12T23:04:24-06:00http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-29http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-29
Read Web Services and the Google API
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Read The best thing to come out of the conference]]>bryan.oakley@gmail.comHome2006-09-19T21:04:50-05:00http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-27http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-27
This article describes a couple of simple techniques for organizing your code as you move beyond "Hello, World" and on to more complex applications.

Read Your Second Tcl Program]]>bryan.oakley@gmail.comHome2006-06-27T21:59:43-05:00http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-26http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-26
Read Introduction to Toplevel Windows]]>bryan.oakley@gmail.comHome2006-06-04T21:05:00-05:00http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-25http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-25
Read Introduction to named fonts]]>bryan.oakley@gmail.comHome2006-06-04T21:02:38-05:00http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-24http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-24bryan.oakley@gmail.comHome2006-04-30T16:21:23-05:00http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-23http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-23
Read Binding and -command scripts ]]>bryan.oakley@gmail.comHome2006-04-24T00:10:59-05:00http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-22http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-22
Read Getting started with tcltest and Installing tcltest]]>bryan.oakley@gmail.comHome2006-03-31T18:22:03-06:00http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-21http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-21
I wrote a short article showing how easy it is to achieve this effect using a very simple technique that takes advantage of the features built in to the Tk photo image format.

Toolbars and grayscale images]]>bryan.oakley@gmail.comHome2006-03-26T00:21:57-06:00http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-20http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-20
To me, "magazine" means "monthly", so I've decided to organize my articles by month so those who want a monthly magazine-type reading experience can start with the index for a particular month rather than reading this blog. I still hope to post weekly as often as I can so this only affects how I organize the archives. This scheme also lets me use what I hope will be permanent links to each article, in case anyone wants to bookmark or link directly to a specific article.

I'm considering posting the most recent monthly index to comp.lang.tcl shortly after each month ends, so much like we now get a weekly "Tcl-URL!" we'll also get a monthly "last month on tclscripting.com..." to try and get more people interested in the site.

If you think this is a good idea, or if you think it's not, I'd be glad to hear your opinion. Just click on the Feedback link and type in your comments, or send a message to feedback@tclscripting.com.

Thanks for reading!]]>bryan.oakley@gmail.comGUI2006-03-26T00:14:48-06:00http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-19http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-19bindtags. I've written a short article that introduces the concept of bindtags and gives a few small examples of how they are used and what they may be used for.

Introduction to bindtags]]>bryan.oakley@gmail.comHome2006-03-12T14:59:21-06:00http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-17http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-17
Using named arguments]]>bryan.oakley@gmail.comHome2006-02-26T09:02:35-06:00http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-16http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-16
Writing Tk Code in the Right Order]]>bryan.oakley@gmail.comHome2006-02-18T23:29:15-06:00http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-15http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-15more...]]>bryan.oakley@gmail.comHome2006-02-12T18:47:39-06:00http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-12http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-12more...
]]>bryan.oakley@gmail.comHome2006-01-29T15:27:45-06:00http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-11http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-11 more...]]>bryan.oakley@gmail.comHome2006-01-19T06:30:06-06:00http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-10http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-10Programming:Tcl is an open content WikiBook on programming in Tcl/Tk. I remember seeing this once before and had forgotten all about it until its Tcler's Wiki page was updated today. It's worth checking out.

I've also added a link to it on my Resources page in case you come here later looking for it.]]>bryan.oakley@gmail.comHome2006-01-15T16:51:15-06:00http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-8http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-8You only need curly braces when you need curly braces more...]]>bryan.oakley@gmail.comHome2006-01-09T11:33:23-06:00http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-6http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-6 more...]]>bryan.oakley@gmail.comHome2006-01-03T16:28:22-06:00http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-3http://www.tclscripting.com/index.html#unique-entry-id-3Save menu item, etc.

Over the years I've learned that this can be a maintenance nightmare. For example, your application may start out with just a File->Save menu. Later you add a toolbar and right-click menu. Then you add keyboard accelerators. Each time you do this you have to find the places in your code where you disable the File->Save menu item and add code to disable all the other widgets and menu items. more...
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For now, consider this site alpha quality at best. I haven't managed a real website in years; my CSS and HTML skills are pretty rusty and I've never done a blog or dealt with RSS before.

I'm also learning a new tool (RapidWeaver, by Realmac Software) that has its own share of quirks. Expect a few bumps in the road while I work the kinks out, and don't assume that links to any particular page will work in the future. Eventually that will change, but for now expect the whole site to be subject to change.]]>