I have done a good deal of UI programming in the past, but am new to Perl/Tk:

1. Can anyone recommend a good Perl/Tk book ?

2. I would like to create two canvases stacked on top of each other (sort of like a fixed table header with table data displayed below). I need to be able to scroll the table data vertically, but would like the header and data to scroll horizontally in lockstep. I still haven't completely grokked the meaning and truth of the Perl/Tk widgets and containers, so it is not obvious to me the best solution. (When I say "table data", I don't really have a table of text data, rather I have a fixed set of headers and I am drawing stuff in a Canvas below it, and I need them to scroll horizontally together.) Can anyone point me to an example, or blurt out the widgets that I need to focus on ?

Many thanks.

In reply to I seek illumination and knowledge by deesler

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