Webmaster Forum / Perl / Tk / September 2003

I'm not sure if this is a bug - or just something stupid I have missed
or done wrong.  If anyone could point me in the right direction, or
let me know if they see the problem or confirm it's a bug I would
appreciated it.  This problem occurs on win32 platform - ActiveState

I've looked through the MPTK book, which talks about how to create a
brand-spanking-new widget using C and XS.  Is there a way to do this in
pure Perl, without deriving it from another widget?  Obviously C would
be a better way to go, but the powers that be don't think I need a C ...

On Monday, Sep 29, 2003, at 09:58 US/Eastern, Steve Lidie wrote:

I've seen this come up in a couple of places recently and
was wondering if someone knows the work-around.
The  snippet works fine, if it is a non-scrolled canvas,
and the balloon appears over the text.

I have been learning basic perl for about three months now. I have the
O'Reilly book Learning Perl/TK but i do not have the TK extension. Does
anybody know where i can get it?
Thanks in advance, James

I have a MainWindow that opens several Toplevels and I need to have
the Toplevels send an event to the MainWindow to tell it when they
close. I know about the protocol(WM_DELETE_WINDOW) method but this is
something that you set for the Toplevel, not the MainWindow. Is there

Steve Lidie <sol0@Lehigh.EDU> writes:

I just found out about the Tk::send/Receive system, and it looks like it
may be perfect for speeding up some of my IPC stuff (I use a homegrown
version of IPC at the moment).
Unfortunately the docs I can find seem a little...light.

I have an application using a number of widgets created with the scrolled
method.  A side effect of this seems to be that both the frame and the
scrollbars of the megawidget take focus when tabbing through.  Is there any
good way to set -takefocus to 0 for the frame and scrollbar ...

You can tie a Balloon to a widget or to an item or ID on a canvas.  What
I want to do is tie a balloon to a bit of tagged text in a text widget.
If the mouse hovers over a bit of tagged text, it highlights, raises or
changes color or something (which I already know how to do, so ...

On Tuesday, Sep 16, 2003, at 08:18 US/Eastern, Steve Lidie wrote:

-----Original Message-----
From: Marcos.Rebelo@eurocopter.com [mailto:Marcos.Rebelo@eurocopter.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 1:11 PM
To: ptk@lists.Stanford.EDU

hi *,
I create an table with Tk::TableMatrix::SpreadsheetHideRows;
I would like to represent each line with an '+' (row extention) in
another color;

at cpan.org i found the module Tk::MListbox.
This module can do all the things that I need
for a small programm.
It would be nice to have different colors for

I'm trying to place a background in the Main Window as follows but it
doesn't seem to work. Can anybody correct my syntax? Thanks a lot.
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   $main -> Photo('bg', -file =>