Webmaster Forum / Perl / Tk / March 2006

I've noticed that if I have a custom signal handler in a Tk script, the
handler won't be triggered until the some part of its gui becomes focused.
For instance, this:
use Tk;

it's my second attempt to get an answer to my question:
I've a question about designing a composite mega-widget.
the mega-widget is frame-based and containes a ToolBar-widget with two or
more buttons.

very simple question but i dunt the answr ;)
how to write special symbols in perl/tk . I want to write in help ,
copyright , then symbol for copyright © into help text .
how to write ©  in perl/tk

I've written a Perl/Tk application that I've run successfully on Linux,
Windows and Mac OS.  Now I want to allow the user to override some of
the default behaviors with a windows-style "preferences" menu item.
Now my question, is there a standard way to do this for cross platform

This one's got me stumped.
Take the following script (run under taint mode):
use Tk;
use Tk::ErrorDialog;

I have the following problem and couldn't find a solution for it so
far. A program starts a perl script and the perl script has to fulfil
tasks which require some time. So, that the user does not initiate the
perl script again (because he does not get any an immediate output), I

i am using threads with perl tk in my application , on the main window
close event the program displays segmentation fault. Can anyone help?
here is the code
###############[Code]#############

I have a simple list box with a list of files. On binding to souble
-click , I launch an application in back ground (e.g an editor) with
this file.   I want to be able to allow users to play with gui but the
Tk application hangs until I close the application.

I'm installing the Tk perl module (804.027) on 64bit (AMD) RedHat
Enterprise Linux 3 update 6 (Kernel 2.4.21-37, perl 5.8.0).  I tried
with CPAN and manually, and it was unable to find the X11 library (and
looking in /usr/X11R6/lib).  I was able to get it to work by replacing

I have an image that displays alpha-numeric characters used as a
securiy code....as your would see while signing up for e-mail IDs, the
image code...S9PC..but that's in .jpeg format
I want to convert the image into a text and have my script put it in

I am trying to create a scrollable canvas containing a list of images.
Since I want to have my own title and information captions for each
image I did not use Tk::Thumbnail. The problem is: Although the
scrollbar shows up, it is not operational. I checked with the Mastering

looking to write a graphical terminal in tk, anyone have any
suggestions for writing/designing a terminal widget, you know, a widget
that can accept input and writes output as a terminal?
Thanks in  advance, oh and sorry for writing this same question twice

hii
i am using scale widget for moving frames while playing mpeg
files(mltpp), i am facing with this problem
Attempt to free non-existent shared string '_TK_RESULT_', Perl

I'm looking for an experienced Perl programmer (DBI (Oracle), Perl/TK in
a
Linux/Solaris miljø).
If I can really dream the person would also have a geology background

I have written this following peice of code which takes a value n,
creates n buttons and depending on the value of n call same subroutine
to perform different task . The problem is in sub xyz1 the value $cnt
gets is always '1' although i pass differnt values to it..(0 to