Webmaster Forum / Perl / Tk / June 2007

 I was wanting to write an application that could display multiple
jpegs on a canvas (basically a gallery of images).  But, with the
ability to select the images and drag them around with the mouse and
place them how I want.  I'm a little unfamiliar with all of the

I have been using Perl/Tk to control some instruments.
I find it convenient to tag the instrument control
directly Tk widgets.  
For example I have a Tk::Button widget named "$off_button

I have a number of Notebook pages each with many Tk objects. I need to
temporarily hide some of those objects using $object->UnmapWindow
Later on, I need to reinstate them using  $object->MapWindow
The problem is that each time a notebook page is raised the hidden

Debian Sarge with TK 800.025
(The problem in this post does the same thing on 804)
I have been learning TK for about a month and so far so good.  Although,
coming from Delphi I miss the interactive form building that was very

I tried in vein to use Tk::Font and the help pages. I could not set the
default/current font size. I need bigger fonts than the default 8 pitch. If
"$mw    = MainWindow->new;" what do I do next?
I was successfull in setting each Label, button, etc wiget "-font". I could

I've made an object class that contain references to images, one frame
in a NoteBook passed by parameter to the constructor. I would to
destroy completly an created object to recreate it during the
execution.

I am mtrying to atttach ballloon on the menu item but am not able to
do so.
Following is the program -
use strict ;

Could someone help me with Packforget and packSlaves in this piece of
code?
I am able to open one first window. But when I try to open subsequent
windows after one window has been opened, it fails.

I am posting a balloon.I want that the balloon should get destroyed
after some time , say 5 seconds if no action is done with the
mouse(mouse not moved etc...).
Pls help me in doing the same !!!

How can I find out the line no of the text over which the mouse cursor
is placed ?

I would like to have an animated "please wait" window while my interface
is busy doing something. The animation could be an animated GIF for example.
Is it possible to do something like this, having an asynchronous
animation playing while the code is doing something else ? Or is ...

Despite having worked with a laptop day in day out, I only landed up
with aching wrists, strained neck and back; with my work still
pending. I could quote several reasons for it - my laptop processor
runs too hot, my laptop keeps slipping from the pillow, plus the