ActiveState, TK, and w2k

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Re: ActiveState, TK, and w2k by Chmrr (Vicar) on Apr 18, 2002 at 21:37 UTC
The canonical demo script to run to test is `widget`. It should have been put into C:\perl\bin (or equivilent) when the Tk ppm was installed. If that doesn't run, then you've got problems. perl -pe '"I lo`+$^X$\"$]!$/"=~m%(.)%s;$_=$1;y^`+*^e v^#$&V"+@( NO CARRIER'	[reply] [d/l]
Re: ActiveState, TK, and w2k by eLore (Hermit) on Apr 18, 2002 at 21:44 UTC
Addendum: <BL> executed floor.pl demo via perl -W... no messages Inserted a few print statements. demo's don't appear to actually do anything, just lots of sub definitions Reinstalled Tk for giggles <BL> Thanks to Chmrr for pointing out what I should have read in the documentation. widget.bat is the launcher for the demos.	[reply]
Re: ActiveState, TK, and w2k by rbc (Curate) on Apr 18, 2002 at 20:43 UTC
Are you starting the scripts from a C:> prompt? If so, try adding some print statements.	[reply]
Re: ActiveState, TK, and w2k by thunders (Priest) on Apr 19, 2002 at 06:40 UTC
In older Active State releases Tk needed to be installed via ppm. Newer perl builds from AS come with Tk, In either case I've never had a problem running Tk on and build of windows(having worked with NT,2K,ME, and 98SE) The reason floor.pl doesn't run, well look at the code, it doesn't `use Tk;`, for one thing. floor.pl is one of a few dozen scripts initialized through the widget demo. widget is installed on the path so you can run it from any directory by typing `widget`, or from Start->Run. On the widget demo, floor is under "Canvas #6. A building floor plan"	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: ActiveState, TK, and w2k by danichka (Hermit) on Apr 18, 2002 at 21:02 UTC
Have you tried running it with warnings? use Your::Head;	[reply]