in reply to Perl/Tk Word Search Help/Suggestions

I can suggest you a way to increase a probabliity of successfull searching for your application, or any other perl+Tk.

I also have several application good working this way.

Find such application among Tcl/Tk applications (there are surprisingly many GUI application that do many different things, look at http://resource.tcl.tk/resource/software/applications/)

After that you do

use Tcl::Tk qw(:perlTk); my $int = new Tcl::Tk; $int->Eval(<<'EOS'); #...you...paste...tcl/tk code here # or write it source /path/to/my/file EOS # here you can access Tcl/Tk widgets by using my $button = $int->widget(".ff.path.to.widget"); # and tie perl variable to Tcl variable and it is # configured to be displayed on GUI my $labtext; tie $labtext, 'Tcl::Var', $int, "labtext"; # for example $button->configure( -command=> sub { print "Hey, man, you just pressed the button\n"; $labtext = "indeed, that man pressed the button"; }); $int->MainLoop;
Then you can add powerful functionality by adding Perl-coded logic to Tcl/Tk GUI

Not that I want to obtrude that way, but this is a way I have some GUI Perl applications working with really few efforts spent, and continuing coding using Perl only.

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