Webmaster Forum / Perl / Tk / November 2006

I just copy & paste the code from
http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?displaytype=print;node_id=351865,
save as a.pl, the run with:
perl a.pl

Can we give default cursor selection for Hlist...means whether we
selected or not selected an item in hlist,it must be defaulty select
the first item..........................can we do that.................
Lakshmi Nagandla

Is there any GUI tool (like glade for gtk and desinger for qt) for
designing the GUI using the perl/tk.
Thanks
Aravinda B

Does anyone know of a good book on using Zinc, or perhaps a tutorial?
I have already read through ZINC_refman3.3.0.pdf but that created far
more questions than it answered.

In the following problem, I use TK to get a page and show it, but
I get nothing when I use it on a chinese web page, and it can get some
thing for a english based web page, why?
     I think it may the the "FONT" problem, but I do not not how to

 how can we add an item in hlist after cursor selection.means if 5
items r there in hlist and now my cursor is at 3rd position..i need to
add a new item at 4th position................how can we do
that...........

If I execute my perl TK program using the Linux (Fedora Core 5) command
line, the program displays a console which is what I want and expect.
However, if I create a desktop shortcut to the TK program, when
executed with that shortcut, the program runs fine but does not display

I can to bind key combination ALT + 1 and can't find solution. What is the
right syntax?

I am in trouble with Perl-Tk applications with Gnome 2.10 ( Mandriva
2006 ). I run just the minimal PTk script ( just a single MainWindow
application ), I start the application, it works alright, but as soon
as I try to interact with Gnome menus, or start eog, gedit, etc... the

I recently contributed a patch to tidyview to allow it to preview
Perl::Tidy changes as colorized diffs. Leif Eriksen (tidyview's author)
suggested making the functionality available as Perl/Tk megawidget. I
thought that was an interesting idea and have started work on it, but

I really have looked at the Perldoc and done searches on google and
this group.
I have this really BASIC question about using JComboBox.
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I'm trying to add functionality to Tk::DiffText but find myself wanting
more information from widgets than they seem to provide. I suspect that
some of this occurs in Tk itself and isn't visible from Perl, but I
thought I'd pick the collective consciousness and see if there are any

Ok, i am trying to use a listbox, but i seem to run into a snafu or
sorts.

using curselection()

I am trying to use Tlist but i get this error:
Assuming 'require Tk::Tlist;' at
C:\DOCUME~1\BOBANA~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\dzprltmp.pl line 742
Tk::Error: Failed to AUTOLOAD 'Tk::Widget::Tlist' at

I sort of crashed my Ubuntu installation. I have not lost my personal
files but I had to reinstall Ubuntu Linux. I still have access to my
previous installation´s home directory and also the other partitions
by mounting the old harddrive as a second drive.