Webmaster Forum / Perl / Tk / May 2006

I have an app that requires about 20 seconds to initialize and map $mw
like this:
use Tk;
&BuildMainWindow;

I need to display lots of data in a list (more that 15k lines is usual)
I almost finish my scrip and I discovered that that amount of lines
cannot be displayed in a TList (i need colors too), or at least I don't
know how to configure the TList. Other requierement is that I need to

I have a gui made in Perl/tk (script face.pl). when the user clicks a
done button then I use 'system()' command to launch another perl
script(Y.pl).
However.. in the new launched script (i.e. Y.pl)  depending on the

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Consider this test script, distilled from a larger more meaningful
program:
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#!/bin/perl588 -w

Hi is there a way to use Readkey and Tk?
I've done a lot of searching but I didn't find an answer.
Thanks
Matthew

I want my users to be able to customize my app. Even a resource as loose
as "*foreground:white" is ignored by my app, as it seems to have no
knowledge of the existence of $HOME/.Xdefaults.  I am not hard-coding
any 'foreground' configurations in my app, yet my buttons still have

I am looking for a *dockable* frame in Tk. I would like to be able to move
the frames that contain
a bunch of widgets in the mail window (the user can rearrange the looks of
the window). I do not know

I am trying to create a new textbox in a canvas with the mouse.  The
callback does occur and I can get
the coordinates of the mouse but the textbox does not appear. I tried
packing on many of the widgets

Pardon me for the lack of better terminology.  I need to determine from
within a Tk application if it is currently the top level task/process in
Windows.  I suppose I mean that MainWindow is currently focused instead
of any other windows application.  I am not finding a method ...

Hi to all,
I am using Active Perl 5.8.8 under Windows XP.
For my programm I need a message box with ok/cancel.
According to the perl documentation there are two opportunities to get

I have a perl/tcl window opened, and like to have a web side link path
in the window.
So users can click the web site path to open web site on the perl/tcl
window.

I have been on here a few times and the help has been tremendous.  So
when I ran into a recent roadblock, I thought I'd run it by the group
and see if anyone knows the solution.
I am using STDIN to feed a fileevent handle and populate a status

I am looking for following 2 inforamtions/
1. Is it possible (or if there is some way out) to have a shell/ DOS
window in my Perl/Tk GUI? i.e I hav a frame wherein I can embed the
shell promt so that now user can use the shell being int he GUI

I have searched through the messages here and can't seem to find an
answer to what I thought was a pretty obvious question.
I have a canvas in a dialog box, and I want to be able to use bind to
select a point in the canvas but then I don't want to be able to select