Webmaster Forum / Perl / Tk / August 2008

Can you kindly let me know how can I change the parent of any widget.
In my utility I need to sometime pack the stuffs inside a Notebook and
sometime show them in a top level window.
So, one way is to destroy all the children and recreate them - but

I want to have a "button" that stays pressed until I press it again. i.e,
button with toggle capability. I have seen "select" and "deselect" method
for checkbutton, etc. But have not been able to find the similar method for
"button"

Hi, all:
I have a Perl Tk script like below:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Tk;

Is there a perlTk equivilent to the TclTk fitToContents command you
can run on a window.  By default it seems that it automatically dits
to contents for me, until a user does a manual resize, then it stops...

I'm trying to figure out a way to do this, and after searching for 2hrs on
Google and trying different things, nada.
I want to "re-skin" my application.  Most of the colours aren't hard to
change.  But...  While $mw->setPalette('#0088aa') will change my Menus that

I need to display Greek symbols like "delta", "alpha" and so forth on the
canvas. I do not know if it can be done?
 for my $h ( qw/H V/ )
   {

What are the possible values of -anchor (-overanchor) and what does
each one of the values mean? I read in FAQ that there is 9 possible
values, but I couldn't find that popup demo in my Perl/Tk directory :
( Thanx for your help.

I don't know if Perl/Tk can get the email addresses from the outlook
To/Cc fields when mouse moving over or click some special keyboards
when cusor is on the fields?
I hope Perl/Tk can do this.

I was trying to see if the module "Tk-LineNumberText" V0.5 worked for some
thing I was planning to do. I just ran the example in the documentation and
the code failed.
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 Is any widget is there to display the audio signals?
means in canvas widget we can play mpeg or any vedio..similarly is
there any thing to control audio in perl/tk
Regards,

I need to kow the line, Column location of the corsor when it is moved in
Tk-Text widget. So far I have used
$text->index( 'anchor' );
This works only when I click the mouse and not with key board. the snippet

Not sure that I can even ask this question properly.  I sure can't find an
answer with Google or my Perl/TK book.  This isn't a real project as I am
just trying to learn TK, so I apologize in advance if this is just a RTFM
question that I can't find.