in reply to Binding Perl tk table scrollbars with keyboards up and down arrow keys

Hello,

waiting the wake up of Tk masters, i suppose, in your binding of the down arrow key,you can modify the position of the scrollbar too:  $scrollbar->set(first, last);

This can used in conjunction of the -yscrollcommand of the table widget in your case.

See Tk::Scrollbar documentation.

Posting a short, working code, will help others to contribute

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Re^2: Binding Perl tk table scrollbars with keyboards up and down arrow keys
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 18, 2018 at 03:29 UTC

    Thanks, i am using scrollbar option in table, I tried to use (scroll, moveto, units) with some row calculations, it is working but not that clean.
    set method looks good need to try that.
    Meanwhile someone could suggest more would be great help with the table -scrollbar option

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      Hi, see Need help finding which column/row the mouse cursor is over in Tk.... You might be able to get your current scrollbar position, then use $scrollbar->set(first, last); to adjust your new range. You may even be able to juggle the code in the -scrollcommand option, and use the -fixedrows and or -fixedcolumns options to select your range. Here is something that you could look at to start your mind working. 
      #!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Tk;
use Tk::Table;

my $mw= tkinit;
#$mw->geometry("400x400+100+100");

my $table = $mw->Scrolled('Table', 
                        -rows =>2,
            -columns => 100,
                        -fixedrows => 2, #trick to hide scrollbars
                        -fixedcolumns => 5,
                        -scrollbars => 'soe',
            -takefocus => 1,)->pack(-fill=>'both',
                                          -expand=>1);
my %widgets;

for my $row(1..10){
   for my $col(1..100){

    $widgets{$row}{$col} = $table->Button(
               -text=> "$row - $col",
           -background => 'white',
           -command => sub{ do_me($row,$col) }
         );
           
    $table->put( $row,$col,$widgets{$row}{$col} );
  }
}

MainLoop;

sub do_me{
  my ($row, $col) = @_;
  print "$row $col\n";
}

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        Thanks, this surely going to help. Let me revert on this. I really appreciate your help on this portal especially on Perl tk. Thanks again :)

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