Webmaster Forum / Perl / Tk / November 2005

i have been trying to rename a file by using following piece of perl
code
use File::Copy;
move("e:\proj\file1.txt","e:\proj\file2.txt");

i read here few times there is no one place to check for all user
widgets. probably most of them are located on cpan but no all. what do
you think of setting up a wiki for such purpose?
best

I use ActiveState Perl 5.61 on Windows XP.
I have a folder "..\Perl\site\lib\Tk\demos\widget_lib"
with files like Button.pl and files like mkButton.pl.
The files like Button.pl are used in Widget Demonstration programs,

I've got a tk programm (perl under windows) which fetchs records from a
mysql (3.23.33 / linux) and shows them in various widgets.
Then the user can manipulte the data and can store them back into the
database.

Debian 3.1 stable
TK 800.024
A weird bug(??) I have hit this week.
I was trying to use the Tk::ProgressBar that is described in the back of

I have a script with a main window, a sub which works for 20-50 seconds
and then opens a Toplevel window.
The sub is started by a "Run" button. I want the main window to stay
open from start to end so users know that a script is running.

I've been doing perl for a while, but fairly new at Perl/Tk.  perldoc
"Tk::Menu" says that:
" the window will have the title of the menubutton or the text of the
cascade item from which this menu was invoked."

I was under the impression that if you did something like:
package Tk::Foo;
use base qw/Tk::Derived Tk::Bar/;
sub Populate {

I have a few Perl/Tk apps that I have written for various campus uses.
Some of these run full-screen for kiosk-like operation. I have already
changed fonts and colors on a few of these applications in order to
make them appear more attractive. The next step will be to use new

I have solaris 2.8 with gcc 3.4.4.
Recently I upgraded perl from 5.8.5 to 5.8.7,
my tk program just show bus error when I run it.
I rebuilt Tk with 5.8.7 and got lots errors when

I know that this question is perverse and maybe i shouldn't ask it
here but i hope people from this group have most experience in
building GUI applications.there are other choices for building GUI
programs, eg. wxperl. what could you say about competition? about rest

I am looking for a sample perl code using www::machinize to do a search on
google and follow the links of each search result, any help will be
appreciated

I'm trying to build a dynamic menu bar in an application that can be
modified to the users whim - large/small fonts, large/small images or a
combo of both.
At first in order to do this I simply added Buttons (for direct

Just wondered what the common consensus was on the best way to go for
parallel processing on windows with perl/tk.
It seems that threads and tk are at best unreliable, fork appears to
have similar caveates.

how can I set an entry-widget into the overstrike mode
TIA
Pit