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- Perl/Tk FAQ part 0 of 5 - Introduction
- **************************************
-
-
-
-
- The Perl/Tk extension to the Perl programming language is copyrighted by its
- author Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com> whose Tk400.202/COPYING
- file reads as follows:
-
- Copyright (c) 1995-1996 Nick Ing-Simmons. All rights reserved.
- This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, with the exception
- of the files in the pTk sub-directory which have separate terms
- derived from those of the orignal Tk4.0 sources and/or Tix.
-
- IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR DISTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY
- FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
- ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, ITS DOCUMENTATION, OR ANY
- DERIVATIVES THEREOF, EVEN IF THE AUTHORS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE
- POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
-
- THE AUTHORS AND DISTRIBUTORS SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ANY WARRANTIES,
- INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
- FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. THIS SOFTWARE
- IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS, AND THE AUTHORS AND DISTRIBUTORS HAVE
- NO OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE MAINTENANCE, SUPPORT, UPDATES, ENHANCEMENTS, OR
- MODIFICATIONS.
-
- See pTk/license.terms for details of this Tk license,
- and pTk/Tix.license for the Tix license.
-
-
-
- This compilation of Frequently Asked Questions & answers (FAQ) is
- intended to answer several of the first (and largely more basic) questions
- posted to the comp.lang.perl.tk newsgroup and the ptk mailing list.
-
- This document concerns itself with the Perl/Tk programming language (or, if
- you prefer, the Tk extension to Perl). Please be aware that this is not the
- Perl FAQ, this is not the Tcl FAQ, nor is this the Tcl/Tk FAQ. Each of those
- other documents is a useful source of information for Perl/Tk programmers
- but they are completely different from this one.
-
- This is a dynamic document and contributions, clarifications, and corrections
- are most welcome! Please send e-mail to <pvhp@lns62.lns.cornell.edu> or to
- <pvhp@forte.com>. With your help this document will get better (-:
-
- perl/Tk FAQ
-
- 1. What is perl/Tk?
- 2. What is the difference between perl/Tk and Tkperl?
- 3. Do I need Tcl/Tk in order to build Perl/Tk?
- 4. Where is it?
- 5. What/Where is CPAN?
- 6. How do I build it?
- 7. Where is the Documentation?
- 8. How do I write scripts in perl/Tk?
- 9. What widget types are available under perl/Tk?
- 10. How do I get widget X to do Y ?
- 1. How do I get a Button to call a Perl subroutine?
- 2. How do I get a Button to actively change under my mouse
- pointer?
- 3. How do I arrange the layout of my widgets?
- 4. How do I get a Popup to popup?
- 5. How do I bind keyboard keys?
- 6. How do I add bindings?
- 7. How do I bind the action of a slider (sic) to ... ?
- 8. How do I configure a Scrollbar to scroll multiple widgets?
- 9. How do I display a bitmap?
- 10. How do I display an image?
- 11. What Image types are available?
- 12. Is there any way to have more than one Listbox contain a
- selection?
- 13. How do I select a range of tags in a Text widget?
- 14. How do I group Radiobuttons together?
- 15. How do I specify fonts?
- 16. How do I get the entry in an Entry?
- 17. How do I hide a password Entry?
- 18. How do I limit an Entry's insertion width?
- 19. How do I obtain Menus that do not tear off?
- 11. How do I get a Canvas to ... ?
- 1. Display a bitmap?
- 2. Erase a display?
- 3. Display an Image?
- 4. What things can be created on a Canvas?
- 5. How do I redraw a line on a Canvas?
- 6. How do I use the Canvas as a geometry manager?
- 7. How do I get a Canvas to output PostScript(c)?
- 8. How do I get a PostScript(c) output of a Canvas w/ widgets?
- 9. How do I get the size of a Canvas? After a re-size?
- 10. How do I bind different actions to different areas of the same
- Canvas?
- 12. Common Problems.
- 1. What do the ->, => and :: symbols mean?
- 2. What happened to the ampersands &?
- 3. What happened to the quotation marks?
- 4. Must I use "my" on all my variables?
- 5. Is there a way to find out what is in my perl/Tk "PATH"?
- 6. What is the difference between use and require?
- 7. How do I change the cursor/color?
- 8. How do I ring the bell?
- 9. How do I determine the version of perl/Tk that I am running?
- 10. How do I call perl from C?
- 11. How do I call Tcl code from perl/Tk?
- 13. What are some of the primary differences between Tcl/Tk and
- Perl/Tk?
- 14. How do I install new scripts | modules | extensions?
- 15. How do I write new modules?
- 16. Composite Widgets.
- 1. How do I get a Dialog box?
- 2. Is there a file selector?
- 3. Is there a color editor?
- 4. Is there a round Scale?
- 5. Is there something equivalent to tkerror?
- 6. Are there Tables?
- 17. Programming/development tools.
- 1. Is there a Tcl/Tk to perl/Tk translator?
- 2. Is there something equivalent to wish in perl/Tk?
- 3. Is there a debugger specifically for perl/Tk?
- 4. Is there a GUI builder in perl/Tk?
- 18. Processes & Inter-Process Communication under Perl/Tk.
- 1. How does one get Perl/Tk to act on events that are not coming
- from X?
- 2. Is there a send and do I need xauth?
- 3. How can I do animations using after?
- 4. How do I update widgets while waiting for other processes to
- complete?
- 5. How do you fork on System V (HP)?
- 19. How do I "clear the screen"?
- 20. Is there a way to have an X application draw inside a perl/Tk window?
- 21. Is there a version for Microsoft Windows(tm)?
- 22. Are there any international font packages for perl/Tk?
- 23. Are there any other ways to create event based interfaces from perl?
- 24. Where can I get more information on graphics (modules|scripts)?
- 25. Are there any major applications written in perl/Tk?
- 26. What is the history of pTk and perl/Tk?
- 27. What can we expect the future to hold?
- 28. How do I obtain the latest version of this FAQ?
- 29. Acknowledgements & maintainer.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
-
- 1. What is perl/Tk?
-
- Perl/Tk (also known as pTk or ptk) is a collection of modules and code that
- attempts to wed the easily configured Tk 4 widget toolkit to the powerful
- lexigraphic, dynamic memory, I/O, and object-oriented capabilities of Perl 5.
- In other words, it is an interpreted scripting language for making widgets and
- programs with Graphical User Interfaces (GUI). (Examples of widget
- programs [not necessarily written in perl/Tk] include xterm, xclock, most
- web-browsers, etc.. They are programs with "GUI" interfaces of one sort or
- another and are subject to the effects of your window manager.)
-
- The current release of Perl/Tk is based on "Tk 4.0p3" the widget Toolkit
- originally associated with the Tcl (Tool command language) scripting
- language. However, Perl/Tk does not require any of the lexical
- features/idiosynchrocies of Tcl. Perl/Tk uses perl 5 syntax, grammar, and data
- structures.
-
- The ``Tk400.202'' package is the production release of perl/Tk (corresponding
- to Tcl/Tk-4.0p3) and was written primarily by Nick Ing-Simmons
- <Nick.Ing-Simmons@tiuk.ti.com> at Texas Instruments in Northampton,
- England, to work with the latest version of Larry Wall's ``perl''. Nick
- Ing-Simmons is currently busy converting the Tcl/Tk-4.1 code to perl
- callable code as well. An initial alpha release of the effort is available from
- CPAN as ``Tk402.000''.
-
- The pTk code proper is an externally callable Tk toolkit (i.e. a re-write of the
- Tk 4.0 code that allows easier external linking & calling, especially by perl).
- Ptk can then be called from Perl 5 via the Tk.pm et al perl glue modules.
- Hence "ptk" does not necessarily refer to Perl Tk but could be taken to mean
- portable Tk - given a glue package to another language. The stated goal of the
- pTk code is to have its library usable from perl, Tcl, LISP, C++, python, etc.. It
- just so happens that present work is concentrating on perl.
-
- Historical note: "ptk" was known as "ntk" before about 11:30 EST 4 May 1995.
-
- The perl/Tk language is itself further extensible via the standard perl 5 module
- mechanism. A number of composite widget and special character extensions
- to the language have been written using perl modules.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
-
-
- 2. What is the difference between perl/Tk and Tkperl?
-
- TkPerl was originally the name of a (now unsupported) perl 4 package that
- Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk> at Oxford University gave to his
- code to wed the Tk X toolkit with Perl. (He has since referred to that package
- as a different "kettle of fish" from perl/Tk.)
-
- Since that beginning Malcolm has also come up with a Tcl module for perl 5
- that has a Tcl::Tk module extension. That module allows the use of Tcl within
- a Perl script (i.e. you must know both languages to get your widgets to work.) If
- you are interested in that package instead, see the necessary kits for Malcolm
- Beattie's Tcl/Tk extensions to Perl, which have been distrubuted as
- Tcl-b#.tar.gz and TclTk-b#.tar.gz files in the authors/id/MICB/
- directory at CPAN sites (locations given in a separate question in this FAQ).
-
- The name "tkperl" is sometimes applied to the "perl/Tk" or "ptk" package that
- is the subject of this FAQ. Nick Ing-Simmons prefers "perl/Tk" as the name
- of the package, with "pTk" or "ptk" as contractions of that name as well as
- referring to something technically distinct: given the extensibility of the pTk
- code the "p" could also be taken to mean 'portable' or 'pure' (not to be
- confused with either the Helsinki University of Technology portTk, nor with
- Brian Warkentine's Rivet). In this document the code of interest is either
- referred to as "perl/Tk", "pTk", or "ptk" though the primary focus is on
- perl/Tk.
-
- Warning: do not attempt to install both perl/Tk and Tcl/Tkperl in the same
- perl installation. The names in the respective modules overlap. In particular
- the Tcl::Tk module is declared in a Tk.pm file - so a statement like:
-
- use Tk;
-
- will probably confuse your perl. If you cannot live without either module then
- install make & maintain separate perls for each and arrange your script
- writing accordingly (this will not be easy).
-
- A more extensive comparison of the differences between the Tkperl and the
- perl/Tk code is given in the Tcl-perl.pod file that is distributed with
- perl/Tk (see the following questions for locations).
-
- Lastly, it should be mentioned that if you build your perl/Tk statically rather
- than dynamically it will make a new perl interpreter called tkperl (confusing
- isn't it? :-).
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
-
-
- 3. Do I need Tcl/Tk in order to build Perl/Tk?
-
- Short answer: No not at all. Perl/Tk is completely independent of Tcl/Tk.
-
- Longer answer: In order to build Perl/Tk from source code you do need a
- recent version of perl, the perl/Tk source code kit, a graphical user interface
- library such as Xlib, a C or C++ compiler, and a make utility. In some rare
- cases Perl/Tk binaries are distributed for some platforms but that is more the
- exception than a general rule (see below).
-
- If you will be attempting to port Perl/Tk to your platfrom then you might want
- to consult the document at:
-
- http://w4.lns.cornell.edu/~pvhp/ptk/ptkPORT.html
-
- where each of these necessities is discussed in a bit more detail.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
-
-
- 4. Where is it?
-
- Source code
- -----------
-
- Tk400.202 & Tk402.00 the latest production and alpha releases are available
- from the modules/by-authors/Nick_Ing-Simmons/"> directory on the
- CPAN. You will need a made and installed perl (Perl 5.004 being an excellent
- choice), a recent MakeMaker and the Tk4* kit. To obtain all of these (as well
- as several other modules that sophisticated Tk programs now rely on) visit a
- CPAN ftp site. CPAN (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) and what
- you need to get from it, is discussed in more detail in the next question.
-
- (The rest of this question remains for historical reasons, as well as to point out
- some non CPAN resources.)
-
- Tk-b8: The Tk-b8 kit remains on CPAN since it was compatible with the
- widely distributed and installed Perl (5.001m)
-
- Binaries
- --------
-
- A pre-compiled binary distribution of Perl5.001m with Tk-b8 for Linux is
- available from:
-
- Australia (please be patient and only try during off hours)
- ftp://syd.dit.csiro.au/pub/perl5/local/perl5.001m+Tk-b8-Linux-ELF.tar.gz
-
- It unpacks into /usr/local. You need to have ELF running and to have the
- ELF X11 libraries (please be patient and only try during off hours).
-
- Binaries for the old Perl 5 & Tk-b6 are available for a number of UNIX
- platforms courtesy of Thomas Schlagel and Alan Stange of Brookhaven Lab
- at:
-
- USA
- http://pubweb.bnl.gov/~ptk/
-
- Thomas and Alan have recently (winter 1995-1996) announced that they will
- update the Tk module version number of the many binaries they distribute.
-
- Physical media (mostly source code)
- -----------------------------------
-
- With traffic jams on today's information superhighway more and more
- common it is often convenient to be able to snail mail a CD rather than suffer
- with .tar.gz files that are corrupted by network spottiness. Here is a very
- brief list of some folks who distribute perl (and hopefully Tk too!) on physical
- media. This list is not intended to be complete, nor an endorsement of any
- vendor (I personally do not have the time to check out any of these but have
- seen that some tend to be out of date by a few months with respect to CPAN
- so please be careful). See the hypertext version of this document for
- hyperlinks to the following vendors:
-
- Walnut Creek Perl CD
- This CD specifies a release date. $39.95
- Cosmos Engineering Company
- Offers Linux plus perl for sale on a 1 Gigabyte IDE hard drive for
- PC-like computers. $279.00 (Fall 1996)
- Unix Review System Administration
- A CD that contains "Perl 5.0" (and much other stuff including Tcl/Tk
- and Expect) for $49.95. Telephone: (800) 444-4881.
- InfoMagic Mother of Perl
- This 2 CD set contains perl 5.001 and sells for $35.00
- Ready to Run
- Perl (unknown version) available for sale for many types of Unix and
- other operating systems.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________
-
-
-
- 5. What/Where is CPAN?
-
- "CPAN" = Comprehensive Perl Archive Network a worldwide collection of
- anonymous ftp sites for Perl et al (not to be confused with CTAN which is for
- TeX, nor CSPAN which rarely deals with computer software). The files of
- particular interest to a perl/Tk programmer would include:
-
- o The latest Tk release should be in the
- modules/by-authors/Nick_Ing-Simmons/ directory at any
- CPAN ftp site (listed below).
- o The latest official Perl release should be in the src/ directory in a file
- called latest.tar.gz at any CPAN ftp site (listed below).
- o If you need something older or newer than the "latest supported
- release" try the src/5.0/ directory at any CPAN ftp site (listed
- below).
-
- There are a number of modules available for use with Tk. Among them:
-
- o Alan Scheinine's SelFile.pm is in the
- modules/by-authors/Alan_Scheinine/ directory at any CPAN
- ftp site (listed below).
- o Guy Decoux's BLT_Table geometry manager is in the
- modules/by-authors/id/GUYDX/ directory at any CPAN ftp site
- (listed below).
- o Ilya Zakharevich's eText plug in replacement for the Text widget is in
- the modules/by-authors/id/ILYAZ/etext/ directory at any
- CPAN ftp site (listed below).
- o Brent B. Powers' Tk-FileDialog and Tk-WaitBox are available from
- the modules/by-authors/id/BPOWERS/ directory at any CPAN
- ftp site (listed below).
-
- Some of the fancier perl/Tk scripts (news readers and web browsers e.g.) make
- use of other perl modules/module-bundles. Among those that you ought to
- consider installing are:
-
- o To run the ptknews script you will need Mail/Internet.pm from
- the Mailtools module kit, available from the
- modules/by-authors/id/GBARR/ directory at any CPAN ftp/http
- site (listed below). While there pick up the latest libnet-* module
- bundle too.
- o The build of recent versions of perl/Tk requests that you have the
- URI::URL and HTML::Parse modules already installed. These
- modules are part of the libwww-perl-*.tar.gz kit, available from
- the modules/by-authors/id/GAAS/ at any CPAN ftp/http site
- (listed below).
-
- Documentation is available from CPAN:
-
- o Assorted documentation for perl is in the doc/ directory at any
- CPAN ftp site (listed below).
- o Fairly up-to-date versions of some Perl/Tk external documentation
- (such as this FAQ) is in the modules/by-authors/id/PVHP/
- directory at any CPAN ftp/http site (listed below).
- (for Perl/Tk official documentation check the Tk/doc/*.htm files that
- are built with Nick's Tk kit on your computer.)
-
- Bringing it all together one can look at:
-
- o Most things perl/Tk (with certain exceptions) are also linked to a
- modules/by-module/Tk/ directory at any CPAN ftp/http site
- (listed below).
- o The long version of Tim Bunce and Andreas Koenig's module list
- helps you sort out things like "which kit is HTML::Parse a part of?". It
- is in modules/00modlist.long.html and is also posted
- periodically to newsgroups.
-
- Here are the 52 CPAN sites/directories (with dotted quads [IP numbers] given
- on the right for those without name-servers):
-
- Updated: Sun Dec 8 17:12:55 EST 1996
-
- Africa
- South Africa
- ftp://ftp.is.co.za/programming/perl/CPAN/ 196.4.160.12
- Asia
- Hong Kong
- ftp://ftp.hkstar.com/pub/CPAN/ 202.82.7.4
- Japan
- ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/lang/perl/CPAN/ 150.65.7.5
- ftp://ftp.lab.kdd.co.jp/lang/perl/CPAN/ 192.26.91.6
- South Korea
- ftp://ftp.nuri.net/pub/CPAN/ 203.255.112.6
- Taiwan
- ftp://dongpo.math.ncu.edu.tw/perl/CPAN/ 140.115.25.3
- Australasia
- Australia
- ftp://coombs.anu.edu.au/pub/perl/CPAN/ 150.203.76.2
- ftp://ftp.mame.mu.oz.au/pub/perl/CPAN/ 128.250.209.2
- New Zealand
- ftp://ftp.tekotago.ac.nz/pub/perl/CPAN/ 202.49.6.24
- Europe
- Austria
- ftp://ftp.tuwien.ac.at/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/ 128.130.34.160
- Belgium
- ftp://ftp.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be/pub/mirror/CPAN/ 134.58.127.2
- Czech Republic
- ftp://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/Languages/Perl/CPAN/ 194.50.23.220
- Denmark
- ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/ 130.225.51.30
- Finland
- ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/ 128.214.248.6
- France
- ftp://ftp.pasteur.fr/pub/computing/unix/perl/CPAN/ 157.99.64.12
- Germany
- ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/programming/languages/perl/CPAN/ 131.159.0.252
- ftp://ftp.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/pub/CPAN/ 134.147.32.42
- ftp://ftp.uni-hamburg.de/pub/soft/lang/perl/CPAN/ 134.100.32.54
- Greece
- ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/lang/perl/
- Hungary
- ftp://ftp.kfki.hu/pub/packages/perl/CPAN/ 148.6.0.5
- Italy
- ftp://cis.utovrm.it/CPAN/ 160.80.22.17
- the Netherlands
- ftp://ftp.cs.ruu.nl/pub/PERL/CPAN/ 131.211.80.17
- ftp://ftp.EU.net/packages/cpan/ 134.222.91.7
- Norway
- ftp://ftp.uit.no/pub/languages/perl/cpan/ 129.242.4.34
- Poland
- ftp://ftp.pk.edu.pl/pub/lang/perl/CPAN/ 149.156.132.152
- ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/CPAN/ 148.81.209.3
- Portugal
- ftp://ftp.ci.uminho.pt/pub/lang/perl/ 193.136.16.247
- ftp://ftp.telepac.pt/pub/CPAN/ 194.65.5.98
- Russia
- ftp://ftp.sai.msu.su/pub/lang/perl/CPAN/ 158.250.29.1
- Slovenia
- ftp://ftp.arnes.si/software/perl/CPAN/ 193.2.1.72
- Spain
- ftp://ftp.etse.urv.es/pub/mirror/perl/ 193.144.20.6
- ftp://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/CPAN/ 130.206.1.2
- Sweden
- ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/lang/perl/CPAN/ 130.238.253.4
- Switzerland
- ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/CPAN/ 193.5.24.1
- UK
- ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/mirrors/perl/CPAN/ 158.152.1.44
- ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/CPAN/ 193.63.255.1
- ftp://unix.hensa.ac.uk/mirrors/perl-CPAN/ 129.12.200.129
- North America
- Ontario
- ftp://ftp.utilis.com/public/CPAN/ 207.34.209.49
- ftp://enterprise.ic.gc.ca/pub/perl/CPAN/ 192.197.182.100
- California
- ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/plan/perl/CPAN/ 204.123.2.4
- ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/perl/CPAN/ 165.113.58.253
- Colorado
- ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/perl/CPAN/ 128.138.243.20
- Florida
- ftp://ftp.cis.ufl.edu/pub/perl/CPAN/ 128.227.205.206
- Illinois
- ftp://uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/lang/perl/CPAN/ 128.174.5.14
- Massachusetts
- ftp://ftp.iguide.com/pub/mirrors/packages/perl/CPAN/ 206.15.105.99
- New York
- ftp://ftp.rge.com/pub/languages/perl/ 157.225.178.12
- North Carolina
- ftp://ftp.duke.edu/pub/perl/ 152.3.233.7
- Oklahoma
- ftp://ftp.ou.edu/mirrors/CPAN/ 129.15.2.40
- Oregon
- ftp://ftp.orst.edu/pub/packages/CPAN/ 128.193.4.12
- Texas
- ftp://ftp.sedl.org/pub/mirrors/CPAN/ 198.213.9.194
- ftp://ftp.metronet.com/pub/perl/ 192.245.137.6
- South America
- Chile
- ftp://sunsite.dcc.uchile.cl/pub/Lang/perl/CPAN/ 146.83.5.204
-
- For those equipped with multi-protocol browsers you might pay a visit to Tom
- Christiansen's CPAN multiplexer whose relevant Tk URLs are (the second
- one is not active since it violates the HTML-2.0 spec according to nsgmls):
-
- http://perl.com/cgi-bin/cpan_mod?module=Tk
- http://perl.com/cgi-bin/cpan_mod?module=Tk&readme=1
-
- According to Stephen P. Potter some of the CPAN sites have decompression
- on the fly for people who do not have programs like gunzip. For example, at
- the ufl site (Florida USA) type this into your ftp session to download a
- gunzipped version of Tk:
-
- ftp> get Tk400.202.tar.gz Tk400.202.tar
-
- If you have the appropriate CPAN and FTP modules (yes there is a CPAN
- module for retreiving CPAN modules and its name is CPAN oddly enough)
- already installed you can retrieve a module from CPAN and carry out a
- complete installation with a perl one-liner like this:
-
- perl -MCPAN -e 'install "Tk"'
-
- For more information on CPAN you can send e-mail to the CPAN
- administrators, <cpan-adm@ftp.funet.fi>. If you know of some Perl resources
- that seem not to be in the CPAN (you did check the contents listings in
- indices/, didn't you?) please tell the CPAN administrators. If you have
- some modules/scripts/documentation yourself that you would like to
- contribute to CPAN, please read the file authors/00upload.howto and let
- the CPAN administrators know about it.
-
-