Esteemed Monks,

The description of Tk::JBrowseEntry - so despite it being a copy this here type of installation I went ahead and installed it sucessfully on my AS 5.8.0 (bld 806) system on WinXP. I use Eclipse IDE with the Perl add-in.

In this code snippet:

    my $dsquery = $cfr->JBrowseEntry(
        -label => 'Data Source',
        -width => '20',
        -height => '5',
        -variable => \$state->{dsSrcName},
        -browsecmd => \&doGetDatasource,
        -state => 'normal'
        )->grid();

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Which seems fine to me according to the docs I get the following error: 
Use of uninitialized value in addition (+) at K:/Perl/site/lib/Tk/JBro
+wseEntry.pm line 854.

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OK, so what is that saying? Well, here is the relevant portion from the source code for the module. 
        if ($^O =~ /Win/i)
        {
            #$y1 -= 3;
#print "-bw=$w->{-borderwidth}= y1 was=$y1=\n";
            $y1 -= 3 - ($w->{-borderwidth} || 2);
#print "-bw=$w->{-borderwidth}= y1 now=$y1=\n";
            #$unitpixels = $e->height - ((2 * $bd) + 1) + 6;
            $unitpixels = $e->height + 1;
            #$ht = ($wheight * $unitpixels) + 10;
            $ht = ($wheight * $unitpixels) + (2 * $bd) + 4;
#print "-???- eheight=$e->height= BD=$bd= up=$unitpixels= wh=$wheight=
+ HT=$ht=\n";
            #$ee = $w->Subwidget("textpart");
            $ee = $w->Subwidget("frame");
            $x1 = $ee->rootx;
            $x2 = $a->rootx + $a->width;
            $width = $x2 - $x1
854:                    $rw = $width + $w->{-borderwidth};
            $x1 += 1;  #FUDGE MORE FOR WINDOWS (THINNER BORDER) TO MAK
+E DROPDOWN LINE UP VERTICALLY W/ENTRY&BUTTON.
        }

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The author seems to be doing some calculation and fudging to do with Windows, but I am not confident enough to go delving into the module.

Has anybody had any experience with this module? Apart from this annoying message it appears to be working okay. I can turn off the warnings once out of development, but I would really like to know why this is happening and fix it if possible.

As always your assistance is much appreciated.

jdtoronto

In reply to Tk::JBrowseEntry gives me this error I dont understand by jdtoronto

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