Webmaster Forum / Perl / Tk / September 2008

I'm new to perl/tk & also not an advance perl programmer, I have read
many posts that windows + fork + perl/tk doesn't go well.
Here's my problem, I have a program written in perl and I'm preparing
a GUI for it. I'm calling my existing program when I click a button on

is there any way to play AVI-, WAV- and MP3-Files under Perl/Tk an
Win32-system ?
Thanks
Pi

I have a method, in this case, Tk::Panedwindow::panes, which returns a
list of _TkValue_ s. I want to get my hands on the associated widgets.

I have a (test) file named 'xöx' (German Umlaut in the middle).
My locale is set to ISO8859-15
No problem with normal perl I/O, for example:
perl -e '$file = shift; open F,$file or die $!; print "$file ok\n"' xöx

So I am trying to change the window icon and have a 32x32 gif with
some transparency.
I have tried iconimage along w/ a XBM mask using iconmask with no
success.  The image always has black where the transparency is.  I

Just uploaded the latest version of my threaded Perl Tk NNTP client.
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/Q/QO/QOS/Networking/NewsSurfer_v3_02.pl
Please have a look at it if you have some time, this script is evolving,
largely thanks to the threading tips provided by Zentara and others on

I am stuck with the problem of threads while updating progressbar.
Here is my Code :
use Tk;
use threads;

I'm a little new to perl/tk and linux but here goes...
I have a simple dialog box that I'm trying to get to pop up on both
displays of a dual monitor setup.  (Dialog box goes to both Display0
and Display1 when launched).  Any ideas?

I have a Tk app that has a large listbox (typically 75-300 items).
When a user selects an item in the list it drives various image and
text objects to be drawn to a canvas.  The app also interacts w/ a cgi
script on a non-local server.

Native dialogs like how messageBox is now, look much better than raw
Dialogs, imo, but I need to create custom button text so messageBox
won't work for me.
I am currently using "Dialog" now, but would really prefer to have an

I have a simple program with one window with an image and two frames
containing some labels and text entries. But when I start my program, the
window size is too small: it shows only the image but not the rest. I have
to manually increase the window with the mouse to see the other ...

Hi, I just downloaded MListbox from cpan (version 1.11) and I'm having
an error come up when I try to delete a row.
I populate a list and everything appears ok.  I even have an edit
function, but when I attempt to delete a row it appears to delete the

I have a small application with 2 windows.
In the main windows there is a "quit" button and the second window shows a
progress bar (some job is done here).
No problem as long as the programs does it work, the job is done and the

My application has two windows and the second one *must* be on top.
But I get the opposite: window one is before window two.
My stripped down code is:
    $T = MainWindow->new();

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