Some good clues there... I've created an 'all-encompassing' frame in addition to the 'field' and 'prompt' frames, and have changed the physical order of when the frames are created and that seems to work better - it actually appears more like there's a hierarchy from 'out to in' on the frames and how pack() deals with them.

I've also used -anchor to position the frames and Entry items within the frames and things seem to make a bit more sense now (to both Perl AND me!).

The current problem I'm having now is to work-out why text in a Label is always displayed centred when -justify => 'right' is included in a construct like:-

my $mw = MainWindow->new;              

my $pmt3 = $mw->Label(                  
             -width => 10,
#             -height => 3,
             -justify => 'right',
#             -text => 'Version: more text is it longer enough',
             -text => 'Version:',
             -background => 'magenta',
           )->pack;

MainLoop;

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I've tried looking through a couple of FAQs, tried searching on the web, looking in a couple of my books, etc. but it just doesn't seem to want to work! I'll nut about on it for a while before I post a question on it though.

Many thanks for your suggestions -- they were very helpful :)

John

In reply to Re: Re: Perl/Tk: Need Assistance with use of pack() by ozboomer
in thread Perl/Tk: Need Assistance with use of pack() by ozboomer

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