Webmaster Forum / Perl / Tk / May 2005

Attempting to install under Mac OS X 10.3 everything downloads
and compiles lovely but when the tests run, just 1 of 47 scripts
fails on just 2 of 21 tests. Specifically, in regexp.t,
ok 1 - Contents as expected

For a known x,y point on a canvas consisting of non image items, is
there a method to retrieve the rgb pixel value for that point?
Thanks,
Greg

Does anyone know how to fix the Drag and Drop example
from Steven Lidie's Primer on perltk.org?
Primer:
http://www.perltk.org/articles/Drag-and-Drop.htm

This little problem is related to Tk::Text on Linux. I want to be able to
monitor the text output from a script. In the same way as tail -f <filename>
will do. That is the file being displayed is still being written to, and as
new text is written to the file it will be output in the ...

I've written a Perl/Tk application which does some Ftp stuff using the
Net::Ftp module. When the script transfers a big file from or to a
server the ui does not refresh any longer.
Does anybody know if there is a possibility to pass Net::Ftp some kind

I have a frame, and I want to give it some width that's calculated
after the entire thing is created.  (More specifically, I want to add
everything, and then have the frame never get smaller, even though some
children are getting destroy()ed).  I could probably figure that out,

Tk804.027
I have a problem using a Scale with a fractional -resolution (e.g. 0.1):
The -command callback sometimes (depending on reslution anc actual value
of the scale) gets called as soon as I enter the scale with the mouse or

I've written an XP-style Menu in pure perl using Tk::Cloth.
If anyone is interested in it, I will try and post it on CPAN.
How exactly do I do that?
Cheers,

The following script crashes perl (ActiveState v 5.8.6) on my Win98 box:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Tk;

Good day folks,
I'm looking for some help and hoping to get some tips back. here's the
situation:
i've two large files containing one unique value in each file which is

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
------=_NextPart_000_0000_01C558EF.CAEC50C0
Content-Type: text/plain;
    charset="us-ascii"

After the limited, but valuable, feedback I got on c.l.p.t. - I hesitantly
decided to document and upload my module to CPAN. It is a popup calendar
widget used to choose dates. The main advantage it has over DateEntry is it
supports dates prior to 1970. It also is more simple to ...

Perhaps I'm missing something obvious here, but I'm
really stumped. Why doesn't the Canvas have a black
background in this script.
#========= begin

I'm having a new MainWindow which gets iconified right after creation.
The window is built (labels, menus, entries, etc.) and at some point I need
to get its actual dimensions.
I use: