Fellow monks,

I've got one that is stumping me here.

I wrote a program for an advanced perl class I took that is a regular expressions trainer. So far so good...

I have had a need to use it for a rather long bit of text that I needed to write a regex for and wasn't having any luck with the write-test-write approach in my editor as the resulting text was too long and I couldn't scroll to see it all.

I want to add a scroll bar at this point: 

my $restxt=$top->Label(width=>WIDTH,
                      -textvariable=>\$match_results,
                      -bg=>'white',
                      -relief=>'groove',
                      -font=>14,
                      -height=>10,
                      -justify=>'left',
                      )->pack(-side=>'top');

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but I'm unclear on how this can be done. I tried to change this to a listbox but that failed spectacularly.

Can anyone point me in a direction on this one?

Thanks!

Some people fall from grace. I prefer a running start...

In reply to Adding scroll bar in Tk label widget by Popcorn Dave

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