Webmaster Forum / Perl / Tk / January 2006

Using Perl 5.8.6 and Perl TK 804.027
When I try to set the main window title on my program to show a
multi-byte title (like Japanese) it works ok on all platforms except
Linux. I convert the code page to UTF8 and it shows up ok on Windows,

I would like to use BrowseEntry & JComboBox and have not been able to set
the location of the label for these widgets. BrowseEntry has its on L.H.S
and the JComboBox has it on the top. I could not find any reference to this
in the manuals.Any help is greatly appreciated.

Tk::Gripes is not a module, but rather the (hopefully)
first in a series of articles that outline things I do
not like about Tk. These articles can address
anything, ranging from syntax, to functionality, to

Hello list,
i have came across something really weird using the Zinc 'graphics' module
I tried its shadow feature, it works fine with rectangle items but
return an error about some malformed coords when using it either with an

I guess I am not the first who asked, but I couldn't find a way.
My Problem is, I use a Label Widget for an Image (exactly a thumbnail
preview). I want the Label a fixed size e.g. 150x150 pixel and show only
a part of bigger images. But if I use -width => 150, -height => 150 and

I want my GUI to pop up a msg that goes away by itself, or update a
textvariable with a message that disappears after a set amount of time.
How do I do this?
Thanks in advance for any info.

Is there a way to suppress the CMD window in win32 when a perl script runs
Best Regards,
-sm

Please tell me why the Perl/Tk code at URL
  http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=360135
has over its evolution produced a staggering array of fatal error
messages on multiple OS's, most of which do not help one determine

I will start of telling you I am new to PerlTk so even though this would
seem to be simple I am stumped.
The program I am working on has been coming along quite well I am using ODBC
to populate this list box from a MsSql table.

Some time ago I remember seeing a Tk module for adding a small marker
to the right corner of window so that it can be grabbed by the mouse and
resize the window. However, I have forgotten the module name.  Any help
is greatly appreciated.

Hi all;
In times past the primary Perl/Tk information source was this mailing  
list.  It seems now that comp.lang.perl.tk is where most folks hang  
out, the problem is I lost my news feed many months ago.  And I have  

i am using a scrollable canvas . i am drawing a tree on canvas , want
to implement Find function.
on pressing a key cell-inst name enterd by user , canvas should scroll
to that point and highlight the same . i can obtain the coordinates of

I installed your Tk-LineNumberText-0.5  from ativestate.com and ran the
sample script.
==================================
use Tk;

Although I've been using Perl for a while, I'm new to /Tk.
I've managed to build a reasonably sophisticated Perl/Tk app thus far to
pull data out of a database and display the rows using a scrollable list
of Text widgets with a checkbox next to each one.  On the bottom, I have

I'm a total newbie in perl. I examined some scripts where the net::rawip
module
was used. What does the following mean ?
$s = new Net::RawIP;