In building my application under Perl/Tk, I need to build up some menus from servers and database accesses. This all functions well, but there is an interval between starting the gui, and the screen being populated with widgets (main window, menus, etc). While this is happening the present solution is to do "print"s which go to standard out that explain the happenings. After all the menus and stuff are built, I call "MainLoop" and I have a gui. What I'd like to do is have a nice scrolling status window that reflects the writings to stdout (I'll change the print(s) as needed) to a nice window that is seperately displayed. Is there any way I can display a window (or anything for that matter) OUTSIDE of the 'MainLoop' procedure? The references are a bit vague on this. I suspect I'll need something like a TopLevel widgit or something, but I'm a bit unsure.

p.s. I got the browser select goodie working! Thanks.

In reply to Perl/Tk windows and status by herby1620

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