Webmaster Forum / Perl / Tk / November 2003

Hello, all!
This example will show what I'm trying to do:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

1. Using Scrolled with DialogBox->add
Does anyone know how to use Scrolled with DialogBox->add ?
i.e. $db->add(Scrolled(ListBox ...))->pack;
I can do add('Listbox', ...)-pack;

Does anyone think that TK will eventually be included in the base setup of
distros?  Actually, I guess the question is when, not if.  I have only
used RedHat and SuSE and it may already be in some of the rest of them.
A program is much more widely accepted if the users on the other ...

Are there any suitable Integrated Development Environments for TK on
windows? i.e a gui tool to help with design issues?
TIA

I'm working on an image viewer app. I want to programmatically resize the
MainWindow to accommodate the contents, and I want the user to be able to
resize it as well. I started with the form manager, but since I want to use
an Adjuster I had to devolve to pack.

A simple background color setting via a configure fails in Tk-804.025_beta6:
my $mw = MainWindow->new;
$mw->wm("geometry" , "+600+5");
configure $mf "-background" , "red"; (or $mf->configure(-bg => "red");)

I had a posting in here about Tk-Photo not displaying the contents of a .gif
image correctly
and got a reply to it, but it seems to have disappeared?( not in archives
either)

Tis me again.  I appreciate all the help this forum has given me.  I am
learning alot. This time fork()ing with Perl/Tk.  Here's an example of what
I want to do:
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I have a problem configuring applications with optionAdd. I would like
to have all Entries with a white background, so I added a
$mw->optionAdd('*Entry.background'=>'white').
However, this does not work for LabEntries, so I added a similar

Hi Nick,
There is a bug in Perl/Tk that neglects to pass the timestamp
associated with a WM_TAKE_FOCUS event. Find attached a patch
to rectify this.

I think I know the answer to this question ("no"), but can you add anything
other than strings to a Listbox?  I have items of the form:
CODE: FOO
DESCRIPTION: The Foo Thingy

On Nov 24, 2003, at 11:38 AM, Stephen O. Lidie wrote:

I have a odd behaving scrollbar with a Tk::Tree widget. The code below
will give you an simple tree with a collapsable branch. At first
everything seems normal, but after resizing the window and collapsing and
expanding the branch, the scrollbar handle fills the whole scrollbar. ...

I've tried to install Tk for Perl under Linux.
I've made export LANG="en_US" as was described in one of those topics.
Then I've installed Tk but 'make test' was not successfull:
Failed Test     Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed

I was recently considering developing some GUI tools for Linux installs
using the the Tk toolkit but was told that Tk wasn't acceptable and that I
should/must use a "modern" toolkit. No reason was given as to *why* Tk
wasn't considered modern but it got me to wondering. So what *is* ...