Webmaster Forum / Perl / Tk / July 2006

To levelset: I have used TK off and on for small apps but am a long way from
gurudom.  I mostly just use straight Perl.  But...
To demonstrate the use of Linux (at the company where I work), I built a
timeclock app for employee clock in/out.  It uses a cheap barcode scanner,

I have the following "pack" code:
   $frame->pack( qw/ -anchor center
                    -fill x
                    -padx 10

Since I began my project, I always wanted my Tree to have widgets
within its columns (e.g. check buttons). This thread from Sep 19 2002,
11:22 am by ac helped me a lot adding such decorations in my app (and
btw, it's that kind of stuff that goes well beyond any so-called

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Good evening,  I have a problem which I do not manage to solve. Thank you
with those which have a solution or an idea.    I have a script Perl, in Tk
which enables me to carry out research with Yahoo.  When the program runs in
.pl, there is no problem, the connection is done and ...

Is any way how to eliminate stupid underlining at active Listbox item?
What is the listbox item? Is this a text object, label object or what? Is
possible to configure this object?

I have a perl app where I maintain an internal representation (IR) of
my data.
I use a tk Tree (ScrlTree) to view the IR.
I use $tree->itemCreate in the call-back for new branches, and the

One of my apps sends tcl/tk script bits to our mail client (ExMH) so it
can make ExMH pop up message composition windows.
I need to write a small helper stub that does the same, but that doesn't
itself have a GUI. It also needs to be as small as possible (memory

I have another problem with text wraping in Label(). I'm Czech guy and if I
use Czech characters in text then the text is wraped middle in the word
where some national character is. I presuppose that the wrapping code look
for "blank" characters as a \n, \r, \t, space or other ...

I must be missing something.
I have a script that reads a tailed file via a pipe, and then processes
it and puts up the info in a HLIST window.  The problem is that I never
see the window. I know that the callback is being called from the

I am looking for a good plot program for plotting data in a canvas. My plot
are linear, linear; log, linear, polar; smith chart
any help is greatly appreciated.
Best regards,

I have Ubuntu Linux and mostly use the Gnome Desktop.
I really have spent a couple of hours searching both this group and
google. Maybe I am not using the correct key words.
I want to have an icon on the Desktop and click on it and start my Perl

I have a perl tk application which does a graph plotting of location on
a map. What i need to do is to save an screen shot of it at regular
intervals. can anyone guide me on how to get that done.
Thank you.

Is possible to bind callback to mainwindow resizing? I have label in
mainwindow. If user resize the window I want to reconfigure label
parameter -wraplength. I want that the Label() auto resize the height and
wrap text like the Text() module. Or is the other way?

first of all I want to thank all you guys, for your help I got so far.
I need a simple accept/discard widget, similar to dialogbox but since
in my program I want to discourage the mouse (to speed up the
data-entry), I want the dialog: