Webmaster Forum / Perl / Tk / January 2005

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I need to install some perl components in a machine
without net access for development purposes.
Is possible to use the CPAN module to download
all the dependencies and install them afterwards?

Is there an equivalent of the Tcl/Tk command
'tk_chooseDirectory' in Perl/Tk?
Thank You,
Binny V A

I am trying to find a way to get a Tk::Table widget to have a fixed
width. Currently, the width is always changing depending on the width
of it's cells.
I don't mind it if the table has to scroll horizontally, as long as the

Hi,
Here's a little game to teach poker hands, and looping
images in Tk. It could be made to "pay" by incorporating
a "usb quarter slot". :-)

i'm having a few problems with Tk::TableMatrix on Win32 (activestate
perl).
If i select anything, pressing ctrl-c causes the script to crash with
a:

I used some code like the following to create a Pane with some
Checkbuttons. The array @List_of_Names is generated dynamically from a
database query.
How to create a "Refresh" button so that I don't need to stop and then

I always have this issue with HLIST where when you delete an entry - it
remembers all of the original entry positions. This presents a problem
when you have developed a logic for mapping the position in the list
when it was created with some array or other data structure - or to be

I've been struggling with this problem on lots of disparate Unix
systems, but works okay on Cygwin and Perl on Windows boxes.  Has
anyone else experienced this problem?
On ActivePerl 5.8.6, there is a widget demo that contains a test called

I am inserting an array of text into a text widget and I keep noticing
that on all lines after the first line keep gettig a leading space. Is
this working as designed? Is there some sort of indentation? My array
has newline characters at then end - but I can't seem to figure this

A few moments ago, I uploaded a new version of JComboBox which should correct most of the "misbehaviors" I've seen reported on the mailing list, c.l.p.tk, or via email over the past year or so.
I've spent more than a little time verifying that the code passes the unit tests on a ...

After  reading  about -toolwindow attribute on Tcl wiki  at
http://mini.net/tcl/13340 about "...- There is actually some native
support in Windows for palettes via   ' wm attribute $toplevel
-toolwindow 1'"

Is there a way to make this?
Nicolas

talking about the Scale widget, I remembered another issue.
Unlike other widgets (like Button, Checkbutton, ...), the Scale
widget executes it's -command code, when it's mapped (or
close to that time).

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Hi all,
I'm using a Scale widget in my application. Some of it's features