Thanks everyone for all the Tk help. I've changed my app to use -textvariables heavily, so the display changes as the underlying data changes. Now, all that remains is to understand / solve / engineer-around the tab issue:

I'm trying to add tabs to a notebook dynamically while the program is running, after MainLoop has started. 

# silly toy example
use strict;

use Tk;
use Tk::NoteBook;

my $i=0;
my $top = MainWindow->new( );
my $nb = $top->NoteBook();
$top->repeat(200, \&add_tab);

&add_tab() for 1 .. 20;

MainLoop();

sub add_tab {
    exit if $i>50;
    $i++;
    print "adding  tab $i\n";
    my $tab = $nb->add($i, -label => $i );
    $nb->pack;
}

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Here, the first 20 tabs are added fine, as MainLoop hasn't started yet, but the later tabs don't show up.

Without destroying and rebuilding the entire top window, how can I add a tab to a notebook after MainLoop has started?

Thanks!

water

20041011 ysth Reparented under later duplicate

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