Webmaster Forum / Perl / Tk / April 2004

I have a script that uses Tk to gather inputs and then recursively
calls itself to display some other processing using fileevent. When it
runs I get this:
Tk::Error: Can't call method "fileevent" on an undefined value at

I'm running activestate perl on windows XP,
yesterady i upgraded my TK 8.0 to 8.4,
now everything looks fine when i open my tkapplication.pl ,
but when i try to compile it with perl2exe or PAR 0.75,

 I am using Perl 5.6.1 on HP11 in 64-bit mode, compiled using aCC.
While building perl/tk 8.022, when I run "make test", one of the
testcases of browseentry fails with following error:
Tk::Error: Can't set -choices to `ARRAY(0x800000010022f9a8)' for

I've been working on this TetriNET clone in perl/TK,
( url:http://dieterdhoker.madoka.be/tsrv/TetrinetTK/ for the latest porgress
build, compiled for win32) ,
now tetrinet binds 1 2 3 4 to those keys to the keys above your normal

i just discovered
http://groups.google.de/groups?hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=ISO-8859-
1&group=comp.lang.perl.tk
there seem to be a lot of messages that i simply don't get from the  

I would like to create an application (similar to HP OpenView) for
monitoring routers. As the netork being monitored scales up (100's of
routers) would Perl/Tk be robust enough to handle it?
Trying to get a grasp on Perl/Tk's reach I guess.

I would like to modify the default menu in textundo.
I have figured out how to remove the default menu and make my own,
but since I'm only interested in removing a few menuitems
from the 'File' menu it seems like a lot of work to build it

I have a text entry widget
 my $OUTFILE = $fTBSub3Entry->Entry( -width => 20 )->pack();
How to I check that the user actually entered anything when they click
the continue button?  A print statement in the continue subroutine

I'm using the fileevent widget to capture output from an external
script to the text window. The problem is that when the external
script finishes, all the text window scroll bars freeze. Is there a
way to keep them working?  Unfortunately I cannot change the external

How do I use getOpenFile or some other widget/module to open a dialog box
when I click on a browse button & the return the path of the file to a Entry
box?
I tried putting getOpenFile in the command option of the button, but the

Tk::FileList is a file/directory chooser for perl/Tk.
Version 804 of Tk and Tk::TableMatrix are required.
See
http://www.vju.cz/Tk/

hello colleagues,
out of pure joy of playing with perltk i wrote famous game "tetris" in
it. works beautifully:)))))
take a look and call be a noob:)

i have a subroutine
in which i try to update the -background of all the buttons
..
    while ( <FILE> ){

I have a 5.8.1 version of perl with Tk800.024 installed all built
using VC++6.0 and all working for months.
A few days ago, I loaded the free 7.0 MSVC compiler mentioned in prior
posts. After a few goarounds with missing files, more missing files

Problem: I want to control the order in which configspecs processes it's
hash. I have two specifications which (in the end) call the same subroutine.
I want to only trigger this subroutine "once" using the configurations
specified not "twice" like is happening now