Just to give one example of what Anonymous Monk have said:

use Tk;
use Tk::NoteBook;
use strict;
use warnings;

my $m = new MainWindow();
my $mw = $m->NoteBook()->pack;
my $page1 = $mw->add("page1", -label => "page1");
$page1->Entry(-width => 10)->pack;
my $page2 = $mw->add("page2", -label => "page2");
$page2->Button(-text => "you are now on page 2")->pack;
my $page3 = $mw->add("page3", -label => "page3");
$page3->Entry(-width => 20)->pack;
my $page4 = $mw->add("page4", -label => "page4");
$page4->Button(-text => "you are now on page 4")->pack;

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Elijah, what kind of text widgets are we talking about here? What Operations System are you running? What kind of GUI software do you want to use? Qt? Tk? Wx?

I would say that you gather yourself and come back with a destinct choice of GUI and maybe even an example of what you want to archive... It would certainly help us to help you.

/oliver/

I'm sorry to say that the answers to all your questions (in order) are: 1 - doesn't matter, 2 - doesn't matter, 3 - doesn't matter, 4 - doesn't matter, 5 - doesn't matter, 6 - doesn't matter.

He's looking for a notebook (a tabbed widget/control/whatever, it's got tabs).

Calling it a "widget" hints it's probably Tk, but it doesn't matter :)(pretty much every toolkit has one)