Webmaster Forum / Perl / Tk / May 2004

I have a bit of a mystery.  I have two platforms each with perltk 5.6.1/800.024.
If I run helloworld.pl with a done button on machine 1 it looks as expected.  If
I run helloworld.pl on machine 2 the "done" button is very large by about 20x.
If I run helloworld.pl on machine 1 with ...

I'm using Tk::MDI to create a multi windowed application.  The thing
is I don't have a clue which child window is on top at any time.
Within my application I create a simple Text child windows, so the
user can type in some text and later on either print it out or create

I need a DialogBox that contains a scrollable widget. After much
searching I found the Pane widget which (almost) works.  I have two
problems.  I cannot control the size of the scrollable area and I
cannot get the text in the scrollable aria to left justify.  Here is

I've been modifying the mainwindow icon, and have to
explicitly modify all child window icons, when it
would seem like they should inherit the icon from
the parent (I'm on AS 5.8.3, Tk804.027, WinXP).

Every time I fork in win32 when under perl/Tk, the program crashes in
perl58.dll.  Are there special considerations for forking under Tk?
Literally, if I just do:
sub some_callback {

I have figured out how to invoke a callback procedure when left clicking in a
TableMatrix cell.  Now I need to know the row/column of the clicked cell.
XEvent->x and XEvent->y provides the pixel coordinates.  I need the actual
row/column of the cell.  Anybody know how to obtain the ...

I am evaluating Komodo as an editor for work. I am doing a lot of Perl
work as a sysadmin and am starting to get into Perl/Tk as well. We use
PVCS for version control and I see Komodo integrates with that.
All that to say "Do you use it and what do you think about it?".

I'm designing a megawidget to display Help in a paned window
(ala classic Help for Windows), where the left pane is a notebook
with Contents and Index tabs, and the right pane is an HTML
document with the currently sleected help text.

Hi, all,
in every of my perl modules I have a substantial version and date
information so as to keep track of my internal changes.
Since I have switched to looking at every module whenever I change the

I'm having a problem with keeping a newly created
Toplevel on top (AS 5.8.3, WinXP, Tk804.027).
I create a dialog box from a toplevel (see code below).
I explicitly deiconify() and raise() after building

Steve Lidie [sol0@lehigh.edu] wrote:

I'm looking for feedback on a name and/or features/options for a new
analog gauge widget, like you'd find in the dashboard of your car.  The
"N" in NGauge means that the gauge can have a number of needles.  The
mega-widget is derived from a Canvas.

Under Tk-800.024 the following code used to popup a DialogBox while
hiding the MainWindow. Under Tk-804.027 nothing happens.
What has changed? How can I achieve the same effect as before (I just
want to pop up a DialogBox without an additional MainWindow)?

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Is there an option for FileSelect (or getOpenFile or some other
widget) that will force it to just select and return a directory? I
don't need a file in the directory. I need to select the directory
itself. I've spent the last several hours searching the web, perldoc