Webmaster Forum / Perl / Tk / March 2004

I'm having a really hard time getting Tk-804.026 to compile on Solaris
(and hpux 11).  I did get it to compile on mac os X and linux though.
I've tried with various combinations of versions of gcc and cc and perl
without any luck. Tk-804.025 (beta16?) compiles with no issues

Guys,
I've written a nice little script, and it gets it's array of data from the
command line arguments.
If you enter something like this: myscript.pl one two "three four" five

Does anyone know of a Perl Tk program that will take a set of (x,y,z) data
points and plot them on a surface (perhaps with a Canvas widget)?
Thanks

I have major difficulties with binding mousewheel events for canvas.
I use active state perl 5.6.1 on windows xp.
Using the following code, the mousewheel event is never triggered.
I really need this binding to work, and reading past issues on the

I'm trying to create a Perl-tk script that has one top-level window.
Inside this top-level window I have (among others)a Hierarchial List widget
and a Progress Bar.
I want to set it up so clicking on one of the items in the List will

I'm using Tk 800.025 on a Redhat 9 system and I'm getting
segmentation-faults when using Tk::Listbox. For several reasons, I would
like to fill the Listbox in groups of data instead of all data at once.
When I call afterwards

I am working with a 'TextUndo' widget.
used as a small editor
And I want to alows the user to switch (with a radi button) from
a read only mode to a read write on.

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Not sure if it is important, but I ran "cpan r" today
and saw this. Seems to me that the latest version of
Tk::DragDrop::KDEDrop should be in Tk-804.026 . May be
nothing, but figured I should mention it.

I wirting tk/tcl/perl, and create a window. I need to make the window always
stay on the top. Thus, anyone
open a new window, it will not cover it up. Does tk/tcl support this
function. If it does, would

I've recently updated my box to KDE 3.2.1 and Perl/Tk 804.026 and
noticed that none of the Perl/Tk applications has got a "maximize
window" decoration icon anymore.
They still got both a "minimize" and a "terminate" decoration, but

After struggling with the win32 api, and hours of trial and error, I
believe I found a (quasi)stable solution to the label rotation problem
under win32.
Making its way to a CPAN near you is Tk::Win32RotLabel. It accepts all

I am running ActiveState Perl under Windows ME.
The Tk package no longer seems to be available from Active State. It does
not show up on running ppm>query, although all sorts of more specific
packages with Tk in their name do.

On Mar 25, 2004, at 6:52 AM, lusol wrote:

I have a Tk problem.
but it can also be a win32 problem.
how do i get the $mw, main window showing, without the item showing up in
the task bar.