Perl/Tk, scrollbar, @inc cannot locate tk/motion.pm

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

Forgive me, monks-

I am such a perl novice, I am still inept at solving even basic sounding technical issues, as my understanding of how the perl module/file structures is incomplete.

I am programming in Perl tk, and using the "scrolled" widget for a listbox. However, whenever the scrollbar appears, whenever I move my mouse over it, I get no motion, but I get many error messages indicating @inc cannot locate tk/motion.pm or tk/leave.pm.

I am unsure why this is happening, as scrollbars have worked in the past for me, and I am also unsure how to correct this so my scrollbar widgets may again function. Any advice or help is greatly appreciated.

-Bryan, a very very green Monk-in-training.

edited by ybiC: retitle from "Need Technical Help"

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Re: Perl/Tk, scrollbar, @inc cannot locate tk/motion.pm by alienhuman (Pilgrim) on Jul 24, 2003 at 15:14 UTC
bblustein, I am also pretty green, but I think a good first step would be for you to post your code. If it's relatively short, drop it in some <code> tags and add it to your writeup. If it's long, put it in your scratchpad for everyone to take a look at (you can edit your scratchpad from your homenode--I just discovered this yesterday). Some of the error messages might also help. That's the extent of my help. I don't know jack about Perl/tk... AH	[reply]
Re: Perl/Tk, scrollbar, @inc cannot locate tk/motion.pm by tos (Deacon) on Jul 24, 2003 at 15:14 UTC
Hi, in doubt i would prefer a new installation via CPAN. If you are using ActiveStatePerl (on windows) it's an easy way to use ppm for installing Tk. After that you should execute widget. This program shows you, if the installation succeeded, a lot of really cool demos of all Tk-features. Are they running fine you'll surely find one using scrollbars on which you can model your application on. greetings, tos	[reply]
Re: Perl/Tk, scrollbar, @inc cannot locate tk/motion.pm by bblustein (Beadle) on Jul 24, 2003 at 15:49 UTC
Update: I have completely uninstalled Active Perl, then re-installed Activeperl 5.61 - build 635. I immediately rebooted once more, and ran the widget demo. The widget demo came up with the exact same error. So it is something weird happening with my computer, and not my programming. That's both good and bad at the same time. Unfortunately, having already un-installed/re-installed, I'm out of guesses on how to fix this. I'm still getting the @inc cannot locate leave.pm/motion.pm	[reply]
Re: Re: Perl/Tk, scrollbar, @inc cannot locate tk/motion.pm by Anonymous Monk on Jul 24, 2003 at 17:38 UTC
On Windows if you when you un-install it, be certain to remove the directory also c:\Perl. Once you do this everything should be gone and you should be able to start clean.	[reply]