Webmaster Forum / Perl / Tk / June 2003

How would I calculate the number of visible lines in a Text widget "with"
the -wrap option set to 'word' ?
For instance:
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I am trying to install the Perl/Tk kit with ppm install Tk but get this
error. Maybe it is because I am behind a firewall but where do I get the
Perl/Tk installer for windows if thats the case?
this is the error output:

can someone point me to a nice visual gui designer for perl/tk?

This seems like it would be a simple and common issue but I'm not having
luck with it. I have a small application in Perl/Tk with a number of
dialog boxes which are packed with various Label and Entry widgets. I
would like to set the minimum size of each dialog box to be its size ...

All:
This is for linux and m$ windows.
I am building an application that will have different money symbols
The '$' is easy, how do I show a different money symbol like the euro

could anyone point me to an advanced tutorial/howto on writing composite
widgets? there are a couple available using LabEntry as an example, but i
would like something more elaborate if available.
regards

The background of my problem is that I'm trying to create a program to
display multiple graphs. I would like to create a subroutine which
receives an array of numbers and have the subroutine return a canvas
which I can then place at the right place in the main program.

This code intends to put two frames over each other in a window on a
canvas, put a button in each frame, and via a different button,
control which frame is visible via the raise function. But it doesn't
work. Where am I going wrong?

I need some advice on the exact calling params for
getting and putting 1 single line or row of pixels to
or from an image.
If I use the following, I can read 1 line of pixels and I

I am just starting to play w/ perlTk and would like to know if there
is an easy way to do the following:
I have 2 perl scripts, scriptA and scriptB, both of which use the Tk
module to create GUIs.  scriptB's GUI uses the notebook module in

I applied the patchset last night all is working goodly now.  I did get a
number of errors during the make phase (all related to a widget I don't
use, Tk::Photo from memory), would it be helpfull if I posted them?
Thanks very much for your help.

Hello Newsgroup.
The following describes what I want to do:
Build main window GUI that user selects parameters from that are then
used to query a db; this query may return up to 100's of records.