Webmaster Forum / Perl / Tk / October 2006

Hi all,,
I wrote a subroutine which will watch my specified directory
continuesly.......if any new file will come into that
directory......then it will show on listbox.......how can i stop the

I am using Jcombobox (which by the way is an excellent alternative to
the standard one)
but i get these warnings when i run it:
Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at

I'm a relative novice at Perl Tk, and i'm having a problem with
inserted text appearing
in a Scrolled Listbox. I distilled my program down to a test sample. It
essentially just executes

I'm writing a simple script where I have 2 Text  widgets and 1 frame. The
positioning is this
Text
Frame

I am now to the point of having to start saving files and what not, so
i ask the opinion of you that have been down this road.
What DB should i be looking into,I have experience with MySql:DBI when
i am writing anything on a server, but never on a windows machine

I have a lot of records saved in a big quot-comma-quote file.
I want to make a form that will allow a record to be edited or added.
Since there are a lot of fields in each record I need to be able to
label each field with an field ID name for user orientation purposes.

I am still learning about JComboBox and practicing the examples in the
tutorial
This simple program brings up an error if the selected is present
<code>

ok, i am trying to write out an Open File and Save File section, This
is what i have:
sub SaveAs {
$tt = $mw->Dialog(

I am using an optionmenu and doing it like the book sais, but it isnt
coming out properly:
$ff->add('Optionmenu',-variable=>\$vars{capc}, -options=>['Use No
Base'=>'1','use Base'=>'2'])->place(-x=>180,-y=>20);

I need a widget that works like html's textbox, i need to allow the
user to enter information and hit enter to get to a new line, then
gather that information.
i cannot seem to figure out which to use? Listbox isnt it.

Hello, all!
Right now I have a perl/tk script that I've packed to an .exe, which
makes it easy to give my boss/whoever needs to see the script in
action.  However, I'd like to make it even easier.  The script accesses

  I have a problem with the use of browseEntry. In my browseEntry, I
have 2 elements : item1 and item2.
I read a file, i recover a value(item1 or item2). I would like my
BrowseEntry take the read value.

As part of another thread I mentioned that if you put
a BrowseEntry inside of a Frame,  when you dropped the
menu it left an ugly black box around what I presume to be the
internal frame of the widget (This is on Windows).

I am trying to prototype an application for people who cannot read.  I
have more experience with perl than any other programming language, so
I am trying my hand at Perl/Tk.  I thought I might save some time by
building the gui using SpecTix. I have a wav file I want to play just

Hi All, I am very new to this scripting in GUI and my first inquiry:
I am coding a GUI for a unix flow (perl scripting and shell). In my
code I am launching a perl script (  (system ("tcsh -c ' blahblah.pl'")
when I press the button run. And it is running the blahbla.pl in my