Webmaster Forum / Perl / Tk / July 2007

I am stuck up in a problem.I have atext widget $txt and I have many
bindings attached to it.
Now when I want to remove all bindings from the widget , I use
   $txt->bindtags(undef);

I don't manage to compile my perl source with perlcc.
I have a program that use Tk modules and some personnal modules in the
current directory.
use Tk;

I spend a lot of time to understand how Sockets work with UDP and
Broadcast, and I think I'm losing myself, so is someone here who could
give me the code to make a program that is an UDP server, listening to
Broadcasted messages. This program has to run on windows XP station,

I have a chunk of code that has a listbox and an entry widget.
The user types something in the entry box and it searches thru the
listbox .
But wat i need is without having entry box if the users type some

when I use getSaveFile and getOpenFile options.....
only Save and cancel for getSaveFile
 and Open cancel options for getOpenFIle is coming......
but i need delete option in both windows..

There are no doubts, Perl/Tk stands the test of time. There are two
problems, however, that I would like to be addressed.
1. A base perl/tk system which is up-to-date with respect to widgets
available in other relatively more recent toolkits.For example, I find

I have frame, labels in this frame and 2 button for change frame background
color. I want to change background color too in all labels in frame. Can
anybody tell me how to modify my code?
#!/usr/bin/perl

I have an application that uses a database and puts up a dialog-type window
for user input of SQL.  The window contains a Text widget for user entry of
the SQL statements, but also a few other widgets, such as "Done" and
"Cancel" buttons.

I am putting together a small report editor and need some help with
the following problem. I would like the user to type in some text and
then later be able to select either all of it or a portion of it for
formatting (ie. centering, bold, italic,etc.) by typing in a command

I have written Tk script and I want to download few html pages. I use LWP
and this work but I want to download pages in parallel processes or some
similar if it is possible. I tried to use fork() but this crash the script.
Yes, I use it on Windows platform and use Perl 5.6.1. ...

I don't know what I am doing but I do know what I want.
I am trying write a small Perl/Tk program that takes the data present
on /dev/ttyS0 and displays it in a Label widget.
Here's what I have so far:

I want to be able to bind a key to delete an entry from the list of
selections in a BrowseEntry widget.  So far I have something like this:
$entry->Subwidget('slistbox')->bind('<Delete>',
                                    sub {

I am using ROText. I am using this ROText to show verilog source file.
My requirement is as follows.
1) On right click I want to show right click menu, which updates it's
menu item based on the word, on which the mouse is clicked.