Webmaster Forum / Perl / Tk / October 2004

How can I use a textvariable like functionality for my LabFrame?
According to the docs...it appears to work for LabEntry -- but not
LabFrame?

I am using a text window (TextUndo actually but it is derived from
Text) and I want to be able to change font size but tie the width to
the number of characters no matter what the font.
In the docs for Text it says:

I'm having trouble raising a Notebook tab using a key -  i.e. the key
which I use the -underline option on - I do a bind, but still
can't raise it - does anyone have a short example ?
Cheers

After the answer to my last question was answered so quickly and
succinctly I felt a little sheepish; but grateful. :) So I tried my
damnedest to figure this out but to no avail. The scrollbars on this
Pane should allow me to scroll down and see the next widget, but they

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I use the above module/function to select a directory under Windows.
My problem is that after I close the directory select dialog the parent
window will be in the background. I have to klick in the taskbar to
bring it up.

When I use a Dialog Box, I do ...
my $answer = $db->Show();
to find when the 'OK' button was pushed and then perform commands based on
that.  I want to do something similar, but without a Dialog Box.  I have a

I have a script that uses Tk, and when compiled with Activestates perlapp
(5.0.3), the resulting executable has no readable fonts, everything is just
squares. Perl is 5.8.4
Any ideas why? Never had this before...

Well I think I have a prototype for doing threads with tk.
Get it at
http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=401819
Some notes.

Just some words about SVG and Tk.
They were some attempts to read SVG file in perlTk by Ronan Oger.
However as the graphical model of SVG is so rich, this can hardly be
done.

I am curious if anyone else has noticed this and/or has a solution. It
seems that when creating a Pane within a Notebook everything wants to
stay as close to the center of the screen as possible despite using
grid, place, form, etc to get widgets within the Pane to move

Is there any way to align Notebook tabs to the right instead of the left
side of the frame ? I tried -anchor => 'e', and, while it didn't
bark, it didn't change anything either.
TIA,

I have a table where the number of rows is not fixed.
It could be 5 or it could be 50.
I want that the table should have scrollbars and not
more than 5 rows should show up in the table...rest should be

Hi,
I already posted previously a code and two PNG images that causes X
request failure on XFree86. Now I discovered, that the failure
I reported probably occurs because one of the PNG images doesn't have

Hi;
I am writing a perl/tk program, and sometimes through debugging, I
want to determine the value of a variable.
My thought was to have one 'Entry' field which sets a variable named