Webmaster Forum / Perl / Tk / May 2007

I have a simple record entry Perl Tk application such as the one
posted in my previous post.
This is under Linux
However if one of the data fields is left unfilled then the command

I have a simple record entry Perl Tk application such as the one
posted in my previous post.
This is under Linux
However if one of the data fields is left unfilled then the command

This little problem was driving me nuts and it was hard for me to
research through Google search because the key words brought up too
many non-applicable pages.
There are many, many examples on how to make a multiple entry

I have some frames into a notebook. I often have to understand which
frame is active in order to process the widgets inside. Now my code is
like that:
   my $currentPage = $mappa_notebook->raised();

I am getting this strange issue with spreadsheet.
Suppose my spreadsheet has 10,000 rows.Now , when  scroll through the
spreadsheet , some portion of some of the rows that I had scrolled
through gets greyed ( I am not able to see any data under those cells)

Please use the sample programe.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Tk;
$mw = MainWindow->new;

I am not getting expected results when using the copy method of Tk::Photo.
See what I am trying to do is make my application more friendly to larger
display resolutions.  Since there are images being used for the main toolbar,
when you use the application on a smaller screen using ...

I would like to be able to drag from my browser's address bar (using
IE7) to a Tk app and extract the URL.  Is this possible?

I have what I hope is a simple question. I have an old, crusty X11
application which I want to "extend" with Perl/Tk.
For my purposes, a simple X11 ClientMessage will do to facilitate
communication between the X11 app and the Perl/Tk app. I can send a

I am having a problem with the Entry widget where the -textvariable is a
reference to an array element.  I wrote a simple program to illustrate the
problem.
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I have two images grouped and I would to change the display order to
display the one behind in foreground.
I tried :
$canvas->creategroup([0,0],-members=>[$id_imagebehind,

Is there a way to create a drop down list embedded inside a menu in
Perl/TK?
-Trisha

I have been stuck in this problem since long and want to people to
help me out.
The following program aims at making the window busy by calling the
"Busy" function which woul;d prevent the user on clicking on the

Hi Group,
I would like to pack some widgets in a tab, the widgets are created
with master other than the tab client frame. In the following example
a try to pack a Button (Btn2) in the frame I received from the tab

is there a recursive children method in the library?
I found this one useful:
sub Tk::Widget::allChildren{
    my $w  = shift;