Webmaster Forum / Perl / Tk / December 2005

# Need help left justifying both the radiobuttons and the text for each
column (frame) inside the Dialog.
# Is it possible?  Right now it appears to be centering the radiobuttons
and text within each column.

i want to create a dialog box , in which user can chose an option from
the Specified options or can enter a choice of his own . is it possible
to have entry widget and choices being packed togther , similar kind of
box as we have in getOpenFile.

I tried to add command line arguments to my Tk app and added a
reference to @ARGV and/or $ARGV[0] and $ARGV[1]. However, I get a
message saying it is uninitialized. Needles to say, this is annoying.
ActivePerl 5.8.7.815

Is possible to shrink the standard Tk Button? The margins on all sides of text is too large for me.
For example, if the text height is 14 pixels, button have another 12 pixels space above and bellow the text (between the text and button border).
In ACSII-art this is the standart ...

For some inexplicable reason (at least to me) my windows perl application
has ceased to load.
When I call perl\bin\perl.exe I receive the message "not a valid win32
application."  OS is Windows XP.

Do any of the SDL or OpenGL Perl scripts work for Windows? The test scripts
that come with the packages always fail, "Can't locate loadable object...,"
if I simply copy the CPAN package contents to my Perl ..\lib folder. There
is no Activestate distribution to download. I'm ...

I'm writing some program, where in menu is item "About...". After user click
on about some dialogbox popup and here I have mail address and URL to my
web. I want to make this "active" and after click on these texts I want to
run appropriate application on user's computer (eg. ...

Anybody know how to set the tab length in the ptkdb debugger?  They
default to about 10, which makes any deep loops move way off the
side of the monitor.  2 or 3 would be much better.
The Devel::ptkdb.3pm manual doesn't seem to address tabs and there may not

I have an app that's crashing with a segfault under perl 5.8.7,
perl/tk 800.025. I have a core file from one such crash, but I
didn't have perl/tk compiled with debugging information, so with
my weak C and debugging skills, I'm having a hard time figuring out

I have a task in which i have many lines connected between ovals , in a
fashion that many lines are branching out from a single oval and these
lines terminate at different ovals . I have tagged the lives together
with their corresponding oval and also assigned a seprate tag to each

this problem is in perl/Tk and does not appear to be in Tcl/Tk.

   it is possible to tag by the comand tagRow the look of a $row of
   the, let me say, main table view.
   But is it also possible to tag a row which is displayed
   when pushing the cross button which causes the table to expand?

After I got bitten enough by this error and found no solution on the
web I had to debug it myself. For me it looks like the following:
- text get selected from Tk::Text
- TkSelPropProc in ./pTk/mTk/unix/tkUnixSelect.c gets called to handle

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