Webmaster Forum / Perl / Tk / December 2003

Hi, i defined a list box in a *.tcl file like:
$base=""
listbox $base.listbox_consoleOutput \
        -background white \

I have the following program. Can anybody help me to get it to auto
close after 5 seconds and to also to display the scroll bar in the
right hand side rather than the left as it is at the moment.
I am new to programming with TK so i would very much appreciate a

I saw that the latest Tk has a new tkhtml widget for displaying
html help text or html reports (it is not a browser replacement).
It is mostly written in c.  To get it to work with pTk, does
the dll (for win32) need to be recompiled?  Or does Perl just

Got ambitious and put together a minimal
build package and tarball, after some visual
cleanup of the tab layout. I won't upload to CPAN
for a while, but if you want to kick the tires,

Well, sort of a GUI builder. I started this a while ago with absolutely no
planned direction in mind, and let it evolve as I went. That might be
apparent in the spaghetti-style code, but for now, think of it as a
prototype.

Seeking commentary/suggestions wrt this module I've written.
I don't have time to package it nicely for CPAN for a month
or so, but if anyone is interested I can put a tarball up on my website.
Note that it doesn't behave like TabFrame anymore (ie,

While trying to build a "stackable" notebook widget,
I'm running into some odd behavior with pack() that I'm hoping
someone can shed some light on. I've tried numerous
configurations, but all seem to have the same issue,

Hi, i want to advance my scrollbar dinamically during the program, the
problem is that i don't have a reference to the scrollbar through the
program like i have to list box :(
what should i do?

One final update just before the holidays.
ZooZ is a Perl/Tk GUI-builder-to-be. It is still in late alpha
mode. Version 0.02 addresses many of the issues raised by the community.
You can download it from:

With beta10, on my Japanese Windows98 notebook, with perl-5.8.2,
dmake and MinGW-3.1.0, all the tests passed, except for 2
subtests, 'require Tk::IO' and 'require Tk::X'. These 2 failures
appear to be related to my dll loading problem.

i've got a scroll bar attached to a list box. I need the scroll bar to
be scrolled down whenever i write to that list box. How can i do it?

Pause <cpan-testers@perl.org> writes:

Here is the smallest app to reproduce it: (Win32, perl582)
(Did you know that taskman still shows the Tk icon?)
use Tk;
use strict; use warnings;

This patch adds some new tests to photo.t (which work on Tk800.xxx)
and reveals a segmentation fault on my system (FreeBSD 4.9, perl
5.8.2). The backtrace:
#0  0x80bd70a in Perl_mg_get (sv=0x8545388) at mg.c:134

This example from Marc's post (sometime ago)
no longer works.  The docs still say that
{Value} should be valid
(and I hope it will be or I need a workaround)