Webmaster Forum / Perl / Tk / December 2007

  i am writing a small clone of notepad using Perl/tk
  I have a 'Text' widget which is the typing area for a document. i
want to bind ANY keypress (a-z,0-9 any printable character) to a
subroutine which changes a value to indicate that the text area has

Now that 8.5 is "official", I was wondering what the
status of the various Perl Tk interfaces (Perl/Tk,
Tcl::Tk, Tkx) is wrt using it ? I'm guessing that merging
Perl/Tk with it may be a herculean task. Have the other

I have a gui which reads a lot of data and fills in a table of entry
widgets with the updated values for certain variables.  I want to make
it more dynamic and be able to creates x by y number of entry widgets
on the fly.  Right now, I have a program that works, but I have

I'm experimenting with the Komodo GUIBuilder (under Win XP) for the
first time starting this week. It looks promising for building the GUI
that I need for my Perl project, however there's one thing in
particular that I need and don't see available.

I'm new to Tk and if anyones knows what I'm doing wrong it would be
appreciated. I'm trying to rename the label as  different languages
are selected. The setLanguage sub is called correctly as a result the
language is correctly displayed in the text box. However, the tab is

So, I've tried a few things, can't get it working. I know i'm missing
something obvious. How do I change the color of an already displayed label?
thanks
bob

is there any perl/tk equivalent of Form_Load, Form_Unload as in VB
i wanted to know...is there any way i could trigger a particular
subroutine to run whenever an event like (suppose) Form Load  has
happened?

I've previously asked for and gotten help on running a command-line program
from a Perl/Tk application in a text window, both under Unix and Windows.
This is basically working now, but I have discovered a further problem
under Unix.  The basic technique I'm using is:

I write sample DateEntry program
when i run that one,it runs fine..
after that i created exe using pp giving following error
couldn't read bitmap file "": No such file or directoryerror reading

----------------  PROBLEM -----------------
In the code below, I define a gauge using the Tk::Gauge module. This
gauge is toggled on and off via a button press. All works fine the
first time the button is pressed, gauge displays and updates as

Can anyone tell me how to get around this...
#! bang line
Header etc.
$runtime=0

May be somebody could help me out.
I use Tk the version from 2004. I have to make a change which allows
black background (same people see it better). I was successful with all
the widgets, except Optionmenu. I can change the -background option, but

There's a new development release of Tk:

I folks,
Program:
The user searches in a DB digiting a word in an entry widget. A bound
event with this widget starts a subroutine (searching routine) at any

I need a tab index for text widjets...
for entry widgets the following code working fine but for text widgets
how can i do same tab index binding?
#!/usr/bin/perl