Webmaster Forum / Perl / Tk / June 2008

Pls see below a price of code that uses table matrix widget. What I
have done is that I have increased the width of the last column. Now,
if you try to move the horizontal scrollbar, it move move only to a
certain distance and will not move after that and hence, the data in

I thought what I was trying would be real simple:  type in lower case
to an entry box and have every word capitalized - e.g. "now is the winter"
become "Now Is The Winter".  But after I do the insert,  the widget stops
validating.  Latest version to fail (Tk: 804.027, perl, v5.8.8 ...

I was under the impression that I can change the "Icon" for the
"Mainwindow". I an using a ".XPM" image with a "transparent" color for
background. When the window is displayed I get black background instead of
transparent one. I have tested this with ".PNG". ".JPG" and ".GIF", ...

unfortunatly the FAQ is outdate:
<http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.perl.tk/ptkFAQ.html>
10.22. How do I implement 'drag-n-drop?
[An explanation will appear here as soon as one of us writes it.]

I'm trying to get a working version of 64 bit tk on the Mac; the
compilation completes successfully, but
immediately runs into a problem in dXSARGS in make test.
I've gotten tk working in 64 bit mode on Linux and Solaris, but not

Hello I have a problem on Solaris with the NumPad keys. For numpad up
key i get keysym "up" not "kp_up" as it should be. On Kubuntu
everything works fine. Does anyone knows what the problem could be?
Here is the test Programm im using:

Hey guys, I need to put a scrollbar within a collapsable frame. I have like a
notebook type Frame and on each tab, I have multiple collapsable frames. I
just need to put a scrollbar within one of those collapsable frames. It seems
like none of the options seem to work, any ideas?

I have a script using Tk::ToolBar and would like to use icons that are not
in the built in icons. The images are ".png" or ".jpg" format.
sample code:
     use Tk ;

I'd like to paint a section of an image onto a canvas.
For that, I cut out the section using Image::Magick::GetPixels. However,
this function returns a raw array of image pixels (RGBA, in my case).
What function could I use to insert this into a canvas? I cannot use the

Can someone here tell me what I am doing wrong?
I am trying to write a simple application. The example is right out of
the _Mastering Perl/Tk_ book from O'Reilly.
When I execute this, I get this warning:

I have a main widow which contains serveral widgets. Is tere a way to change
the font for all the widgets without adding
-font => [ -family => xyz, ....]
to each widget.

The old story ... I am trying to migrate from Perl/Tk to Tkx and can't
work out something ...
$mw->optionsReadFile('file.cfg');
I can't work out how this goes in Tkx. I've tried every invocation I

I have a large Photo object, derived from a jpeg file, which I display
on a button. I want to overlay on this image another, smaller, Photo
object derived from a png file (I can change it to bmp, tiff, etc., if
necessary), at some specified x,y location relative to the button. I

I'm wondering how you call a procedure which displays widgits or
DialogBoxes from a thread. I am having a thread which listens for
specifc messages on the wire. This needs to run on a separate thread.
Depending on the data that is received, I want to call various Perl/Tk

Not sure if this is the right place for this question, as it is with
relation to the Tcl::Tk module, rather than Perl/Tk specifically.
I'd like to use Tcl::Tk with Tcl/Tk 8.5 rather than 8.4. To that end,
on a clean Debian Testing system I have installed only Tcl/Tk 8.5 and