My name is Alex Plotnikov. I live in Voronezh obl. Russia where ''Alex'' may refer to Aleksei or Aleksandr, me being latter.

I'm in [Tcl/Tk] realms since 2018.

A fan of [BOOK The Tcl Programming Language%|%the book by Ashok P. Nadkarni%|%]. Still my main (perhaps only:) interest in [Tcl/Tk] is its GUI component.

[Book of Tcl by Ashok Nadkarni read here and there]

** Wiki **

Ramble through the wiki! Ramble here and there getting hints, tips, ideas with its [https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/search%|%Search%|%] really so helpful, much better than simple googling.

My tiny contributions to the wiki caused largely by its coherent ideas are:

   * [alited, a lite editor%|%alited%|%] - probably the best of my stuff
   * [Pave, sort of geometry manager] - seems to be really cool
   * [e_menu, pluginable menu for editors] - useful in file managers as well
   * [bartabs, bar of tabs] - well designed, best presented in [alited, a lite editor%|%alited%|%]
   * [baltip, balloon tip] - used everywhere in my GUI stuff
   * [hl_tcl, Tcl/Tk syntax highlighter] - used in [alited, a lite editor%|%alited%|%] and in [https://aplsimple.github.io%|%aplsimple.github.io%|%]
   * [ale_themes, ttk themes for alited] - a bit modified ttk themes originally made by [https://github.com/rdbende/Azure-ttk-theme%|%rdbende%|%]
   * [mulster, multi-line replacements in text] - used e.g. in  [https://aplsimple.github.io%|%aplsimple.github.io%|%] pages made by [Ruff!]
   * [doctest for Tcl] - used e.g. in [e_menu, pluginable menu for editors%|%e_menu%|%]
   * [Tk color picker a bit modified and explained%|%Tk color picker%|%] - for Linux
   * [aloupe, a screen loupe] - a small utility
   * [screenshooter] - a small utility
   * [How to chisel at chiselapp.com] - some of my experience at [http://chiselapp.com%|%chiselapp.com%|%]
   * [User-friendly Fossil site] - an addition to the previous one

** Hopes **

[https://aplsimple.github.io%|%aplsimple.github.io%|%] became my site after ''sundowning'' Mercurial by Bitbucket, hopefully the new site will never be damaged with the sunny acrobatics.

There is also [http://chiselapp.com/user/aplsimple/repository/aplsimple_github_io%|%its mirror%|%] at [http://chiselapp.com%|%chiselapp.com%|%]. As for Tcl/Tk sources, my [http://chiselapp.com/user/aplsimple%|%chiselapp.com%|%] is more active than [http://github.com/aplsimple%|%github.com%|%].

I'll never stop feeling warm-hearted about [Tcl/Tk]. Although it is underestimated now, it keeps believing in its future and its sponsors to come.

I hope to write some day an application sort of ''all people are brothers and sisters'' however pompous and silly it could sound. [Tcl/Tk] is good for this sort of applications.

Obviously, now is not the time to think of such type of hope. The hope may seem a sad irony at the best, a rude hypocrisy at the worst.

When being on a ship of fools with her crazy crew led by an Ahab, you don't feel certain even of the near future.

''I'll be grateful to anyone who will try and fork/save [https://github.com/aplsimple?tab=repositories%|%my repos at github.com%|%]'' as I don't feel certain of their future either.

However, hope is hope.

    The river begins to freeze when the cooler comes
    Her vapours send us a farewell message
    Like saying you'll not see me
    Till the warmer's return
    Till springs
    Till waves
    Till birds
    Till leaves' gay rustle.

[https://aplsimple.github.io/en/misc/springs/files/vapours.png%|%freezing%|%]

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