Tk Hang-up

wanderingM has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have installed Tk on a Win2000 server running Perl using ppm. It seemed to work without any errors. I have tried a simple script:

#!usr/bin/perl
use Tk;

my $main = MainWindow->new;
MainLoop;
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However, when I try to run this code from a browser, nothing happens. Well, after a couple of minutes I get a server timeout error. Am I missing something? Maybe I do not understand how Tk is meant to be used? Has anyone encountered this scenario before?

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Re: Tk Hang-up by buckaduck (Chaplain) on Feb 14, 2002 at 01:59 UTC
Perl/Tk is not meant to be used in a browser. You probably want a language like Java if this is what you're trying to accomplish. buckaduck	[reply]
Re: Tk Hang-up by Chmrr (Vicar) on Feb 14, 2002 at 03:33 UTC
You're not the first person to have misunderstood Tk; here's my previous attempt to explain (or perhaps here, more succintly). perl -pe '"I lo`+$^X$\"$]!$/"=~m%(.)%s;$_=$1;y^`+*^e v^#$&V"+@( NO CARRIER'	[reply]