Webmaster Forum / Perl / Tk / March 2007

It is possible to tell Tk, that strings inputed into widgets (eg. Entry,  
Text, etc.) has different encodings than utf8?
On linux is all ok, bu i have problem on windows. I use polish wersion of  
this system, so I'm enforced to use cp-1250 (windows-1250) encoding. In  

Hullo all,
newbie to both perl and tk.

module)

 I have a tkname that is still around even though it appears that the
program that used it long ago exited.  I've searched for the process
and can't see it anywhere.
 How do I:

I'm wondering on how to fill a listbox with certain data.
I use 2 jcomboboxes which query data from a CSV file, this works like
it should.
Then i use the array of data to fill the listbox.

I spent some time on figuring that one out, so I will just write a few
words here in case anyone else has the same problem.
In a standard Debian or Ubuntu installation, perl-tk programs look awful.
All fonts are scaled bitmaps, and it looks terribly.  Most of the "normal"

As I have said here in a previous thread, PNG under Linux often produces
this message :
X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
  Major opcode of failed request:  73 (X_GetImage)

I have an application that uses a TableMatrix in which I wish the user to
able to select a cell and some action occur (other than editing the cell).
I have this working using the -browsecommand option to TableMatrix, but it
is not completely satisfactory since it is far too easy to ...

I have a fair amount of experience with Perl/Tk, but I'm new to
Canvas widgets. I have looked at the FAQ and searched the net,
but have not found an answer to this.
I have an image (Photo), and I want to overlay it with some

I've used XForms in the past for a couple of GUI apps in 'C' and Perl,
and found the design app that comes with the XForms library very
convenient. I now want to use Perl/Tk, but have not found a GUI designer
that has the major convenience of being able to drag and place widgets

Simple question:
How do you return a value from a button to variable
use Tk;
my $mw=tkinit;

I have a canvas that I am plotting points to. I want this plotting to
be animated so the plotted points will be ploted gradually instead of
having the whole thing  displayed in one quick instance. So I put a
sleep 2 in the plotting loop and the there is not a 2 second delay

I've a question about Tk-DateEntry.
is there a possibility to set month and year for the dropdown-calendar
without doing input in the entry ?
Thanks Pit

Please help. I can't get this code to work properly with the
ExecuteCommand procedure. I want the stdout and stderr to be in the
upper white screen. Not open another window. I would like to have them
merged. Anyway I can achieve that?

I have a main window that I create like this:
$MW = MainWindow->new;
$MW->title("CLUSTER");
$F = $MW->Frame(

Hallo NG,
$hdl->bind( '<Any-KeyPress>',[\&anikey]);
ok, except if Key==<Tab>
(v5.8.7 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread/ Tk 804)