I have been using a long time Perl with TK and it has been working fine and have been able to do everything I need besides one thing I have never been able to make work is to link a scrollbar to different GUI objects so that I can make a GUI which has more objects then can fit in the screen and that I can use a scrollbar to show them. Does anybody know if this is possible at all in Tk. I put a small example below to show what I mean, what if I have 40 buttons and I want to have them all in the GUI.

Pieter 

#!c:/perl/bin/perl   
use Tk;
$mw = MainWindow->new();
$mw->geometry('+0+0');
$mw->title( "Many buttons" );

## Create Frame of elements
my $frame= $mw->Frame(
                        -relief => 'groove',
                        -bd => 1,
                        -height => 5);
$frame->pack( -side => 'left',-pady => 1, -fill => 'x');    

my $num_of_buttons=10;    
#my num_of_buttons=40;    

while ($num_of_buttons > 0)
{
    ## Create Button of elements
    my $button = $frame->Button(
        -font => 'system',
        -text => "test",
        -activebackground => 'cyan',
        -width => 34,
        -state => "active",
        -relief => "raised",
        );
        $button->pack( -side => 'top', -fill => 'x' );
        $num_of_buttons--;
}
        
MainLoop();

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In reply to How to create a scrollbar for multiple objects in TK by juo

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