Webmaster Forum / Perl / Tk / August 2006

thanks to Jeff's response i got insight into other possibilities than
Perl::Tk. differences between Perl::Tk and both other modules are
obvious. i've read some materials about Tcl::Tk and Tkx and for me it
seems they are very similar. could you please point some differences?

I'm new to Perl and I appreciate any help I can get.
I'm simply at loss when it comes to highlight an entry in a ListBox
when a selection has been made by using arrow keys and enter. When
using (mouse)Button-1 highlighting works fine. The listbox gets

I am rather new to Tk so please excuse my ignorance :)
I am having a problem where I lose the selections from one list box
when I make selections in another.  Is there a way to make my
selections persistant until I de/reselect in the same listbox?

Howdy,
I have written this beast over a period of several months, and is still
quite a mess. But it does a huge amount of work when used to develop Tk
apps. So I'm just posting here to see if anybody would be interested in

How do you change the size of the font the message is presented in in
messageBox?
So far my attempts to track down the answer to this have been
frustrated because the key words "font size" when put into the search

How can my perl program know it is running in single logical sceen
(SLS) mode ?
How can my perl program know how many screens the system is currently
setup with ?

I have a small script that I would like to do some stuff, then present
the user with some information (via Perl/Tk) and then resume doing what
it did before.
The problem I'm facing now is that I can't seem to find a way of closing

I want to put a widget1 exactly onto an WIDGET2 placed with "grid"
manager. WIDGET1 is bigger that WIDGET2 so I want to use "place"
manager to place it. To do that I need to know the screen position of
WIDGET1, but the following doesn't work

I have an autocad map of my campsite and I would like to create a map
similar to the one in floorplan widget demonstration. Are there tools
to do this task? Or simply to help drawing the map and auto-convert
into points and lines needed to draw a canvas?

Anyone got any ideas on how to make the JComboBox widget restrict the
choices in it's drop down menu to only those that match the (partial)
string entered into the entry box?
Rather like the MatchEntry widget does?

The dialogue with you makes me fully aware of the origin and the nature
of some dreadful phenomena  of the modern mentality:  the
dissatisfaction, the uncertainty, the rebellion, the intimate
unhappiness of the contemporary human beings.

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^ my script Ive been working on/ off on for several years, recently
just got heavily into gui programing with tk and to a lesser extent
gtk. I will be posting misc questions I have later on but if any1 wants

This posting started in 'perl-win32-users@listserv.ActiveState.com'.  I
tried to find this problem on the web, and specifically in
comp.lang.perl.tk, but failed.  Forgive me if I missed an item covering
it.  My aim is to get the problem recorded for the benefit of others

the Canvas createGroup() method comes very handy for manipulating
several objects in one shot.
However i have no success preserving Event processing for individual
members; it seems the group is eating up the events and the original

Does any body know what C compiler is used for compiling modules (the ones
with C code)
I am running my perl under Win XP pro (32 bit).
in the make file the compiler command is *cl ....* so far I have not been