TCL

help adding timeout to nntp?
Folks, I am using the nntp library in tcllib 1.12 for an application which fetches millions of headers from a news server. It works; but occasionally the link fails and a transaction stalls. Today this causes the application to simply hang forever, since the nntp library does not support any timeout. You can ... 26 Jun 2010 01:09

XDrawImageString
Hello ! Is there an equivalent to the xlib "XDrawImageString" function in Tk library ? i.e. a function that draws a string with the foreground color of the GC, and fills in the same go, the bounding box with the GC background color ? I tried with Tk_DrawTextLayout, but it ignores the GC backgound ... (I'm l... 21 Jun 2010 13:33

Strange text widget behavior on Windows
Consider the following simple script: text .t pack .t -expand yes -fill both ..t insert end "abcd\n\n" message .t.m -text "Text consisting of several words" ..t window create 1.2 -window .t.m set count 0 bind .t <Configure> { incr count .t insert end "<Configure> #$count width = [winfo width .t]... 21 Jun 2010 04:47

hows the aolserver -ing anyone got a nice ticketing app?
something like bugzilla? ... 19 Jun 2010 17:49

GCI Environment Variables with ncgi
Hi All, I'm trying the get at the cgi environment variables using ncgi. Not sure how to do this? Grateful for any help. Best Ever, Y ... 20 Jun 2010 03:44

Smtp - wrong error message
With the smtp package, if the password is incorrect, the error is thrown as follows, with no indication that the password is incorrect: 400: premature end-of-file from server (Note: this has nothing to do with the other bug I am reporting.) ... 21 Jun 2010 12:26

Smtp bug
I have been dealing with the smtp bug that I reported a couple of days ago after upgrading to tcllib1.12. My quick fix of putting catch statements around the offending code was not successful. After looking at the code, and the actual message for which it fails, I believe I have found the offending bug. It... 1 Jul 2010 15:33

freewrap ico
freewarp 6.42 is not taking my .ico , I have the required 16x16 16 colors 32x32 16 colors 32x32 2 colors 32x32 256 colors it is using 16x16 for the file icon but when it is moved to the desktop or on the system tray it uses the default freewrap icon 16 colors 32x32 16 colors 32x32 2 colors 32x32 2... 18 Jun 2010 09:07

Running a batch file with the .cmd extension on Windows
Hi, we ran into a small issue with [exec] on Windows: In a DOS-box you can simply type a.cmd and the batch file is run. But [exec] gives the message: couldn't execute "a.cmd": no such file or directory [auto_execok a.cmd] simply returns "./a.cmd" and that gives the same message. You can run it by explic... 18 Jun 2010 09:07

How to render text in image photo
Is there any way to render text on an image photo ? Using TkImg and a canvas snapshot as the code below has the following drawbacks: - only works when window is really visible, no backround operation - is limited to the current screen size. Unfortunately, I want to render relatively huge font sizes of 72 so t... 18 Jun 2010 20:10