I'm using Perl/Tk because of many powerful features that aren't available in other procedural languages. However, there are still some language eccentricities that I'd like to clear up.

1) Is there some way to turn off the little Tk logo that appears on the caption bar? I'm sure it is not a significant issue for an end user to see it, but why have it on a production application if one can avoid it?

2) When I try to open a new main window via Toplevel, I get what amounts to a second application running, which results in a second icon on the task bar. All I'm trying to achieve is the equivalent of a modal dialog box. BTW, I'm using the form style placement of widgets in my frames.

3) This isn't Perl/Tk specific, but I feel dumb that I haven't figured out how to do this yet: is there a way to create a file of constants like a C ".h" file would contain?

All suggestions and feedback will be appreciated.

In reply to Perl/Tk Oddities by TomKane

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