Webmaster Forum / Perl / Tk / June 2005

can perl/tk be used to enhance a webpage with better graphical user
interfaces?
Most webpages that require "slider bars" "input boxes" and "check boxes"
to name a few are easily created in java, can the same be created using

i have two questions about Tk:
1.) is it possible to change the standard Tk Windows Icon,
like here in my application in the upper left corner
(http://www-1.informatik.fh-wiesbaden.de/~mkwas001/mon_frere/projects/brathering/
img/showModChanger_sample.jpg)?

I am unable to successfuly build Tk-JPEG-2.014 on Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.
Has anyone else had success with this combination?
Details:
PowerBook G4 with 1 GB RAM. Mac OS X 10.4 clean install + all 10.4

I am encountering lots of basic problems with Tk and compatibility
problems across Redhat Linux, Solaris 8, and WinXP.
Perhaps most of the problems are my Perl noviceness when it comes
to timeouts, but some things look like some focus issues with Redhat

I'm running and have installed ActivePerl-5.8.7.813-MSWin32-x86-148120.
msi (on win XP)
Ive been trying to load jpeg images onto a canvass or a label with out
any success.

I would like to be able to access the news group
alt.os.linux.suse
Would this be a problem? How would I go about getting it?
Thanks for any help

I am converting a set of CGI scripts to Perl/Tk. Given that HTML was the
original UI, the application was a set of different sized pages
containing various controls and/or table displays.
I am trying to imitate that behavior in Perl/Tk. Below is a test program

during the course of the running
, the application
i have been sizing and resizing the widgets
so that the overall geometry and organization of the $mainwindow gets

Help!
I'm using the Tk module in Activestate perl to do IO. When I double
click the perl file it opens an MSDOS window and the Tk interface.
How do I either stop the MSDOS window from opening or open it in a

I just upgraded ActivePerl (Windows, it has Tk bundled inside) from 5.8.0  
to 5.8.7 and every
of my Tk application stopped to properly show my national (polish)  
character (iso-8859-2 or windows-1250).

I have an ASCII text file which contains 1's,0's and *'s.
The file looks something like this
0 1 1 * 1
1 1 0 * *

my small example script produces an
Use of uninitialized value in hash element
at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/i586-linux-thread-multi/Tk/Trace.pm line
181.

I have several checkbuttons in a main window and a getOpenFile dialog box
that opens over them.  When you double click on a file in the dialog box
the checkbutton below the dialog box is also activated.  Is there any easy
way to fix this without changing the geometry?

I'm using Tk::Balloon for the first time (incidentally, I'm using Tk for
the first time too - hope I don't seem too green here though).  I have a
basic application that I have written that simply creates 3 labels, and
3 associated Entry widgets, and I would like to have floating

Hope someone can shed some light on a problem I'm seeing. I think
there's a bug somewhere in perl/tk but not obvious to me at the moment
which component is actually causing the behaviour I'm seeing.
I've created a multi-column HList with headers, where each header is a