It's been awhile since I updated the web log. I intended to do it on a regular basis, life just happened and got in the way. The good news is that IceUtils 0.8 is now out! It adds a new Graphical tool called gnames.tcl.Yes, I used TCL/Tk. I just haven't been able to spend time properly learning a programming language. I've used Tk before and figured I could probably figure things out. gnames.tcl is a combination of the mnames and fnames tools in a compact graphical user interface. You click on either the male or female radio button, then click the Get Name button. You can generate as many names as you want and switch between generating male or female names just by choosing the other radio button and clicking Get Name.
The plan now is to continue converting the tools to Tcl/Tk one by one and eventually tying them together. Tcl/Tk is a glue language. I've glued graphical tools together before, so this shouldn't be too difficult once the other tools are complete. I've already began converting the money generator.
Once the tools are all converted and the main menu created I'll consider a Windows port. Presently I don't have a Windows machine at home, I'm not really a Windows guy, but I have done Tcl/Tk programming on Windows before, so converting the tools will probably be fairly smooth.
Check out the new release on the Iceutils main page:
http://www.linux-games.ca/iceutils/index.html
or on Freshmeat:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/iceutils/
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