Webmaster Forum / Perl / Tk / October 2008

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I'm running an application in realtime where I attach a balloon to a
label, the text in the balloon changes every xx seconds.  I have this
embedded in a for loop with the data contained in an array/list.  My

Trying to limit modules required for a program, I'm wondering what's
the best way to replace the PagesManager of BWidget toolkit? (best
is... the more simple).
I know there is ttk::notebook as I use it, but I want another level of

How can I invoke (run) default browser from my Perl/Tk app? I know to do it
under Windows but I want to do it under Linux too.
Under Windows I use
system('start /b http://domain.com')

I don't know if there's a rule not to answer perl related question in
comp.lang.tcl, but as I have no answer there to my question, I'm
trying in this dedicated newsgroup...
In a small ui program, I have a ttk::notebook pane. All the tabs of

I need to display a PGM image in a Perl/TK window.
I tried using Tk::Photo, but it doesn't want my PGM data (obtained from
scanimage):
my $p = $top->Photo(-data => $image, -format => 'PGM');

I'm searching for a way to change the activefill of multiple rectangles
based on my cursor position. Imagine hovering the mouse within a grid of
rectangles. Is there such a way to "activate" all the rectangles within
that column and row, in a crosshair fashion?

I have placed few Labels into main window but need to change -wraplength option
for all Labels every time the mainwindow is resized. The program bellow do what
I need but have anybody a better idea to avoid too many binds?
#!/usr/bin/perl

whats wrong if playing AVI- and WAV-Files with the modul
Win32::MultiMedia::Mci doesn't work ?
(WMV and MP3 works fine)
Thanks