Hmm I did try commenting out the use strict but I hadn't thought of commenting use warnings as well so I just tried that. Unfortunatly that didn't work for me either. I've since reinstalled everything related to perl (I think) on my machine in case switching to threads support broke something I wasn't aware of but that didn't do it either. Considering the total lack of solutions all over the internet for this problem I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if it's some incompatibility or something that I have.

Maybe I will give gtk2-perl a try. Last time I looked at an example script using it I was scared ;)

I'm slowely but surely becomming a better perl programmer though so perhaps I won't be as terrified by the api now ;)

What about wxPerl? Is it doing well these days?. All I really care about is having a fairly easy to use api that will make windows and widgits that happily conform to my window manager/decorator. I'm not determined to use TK in other words.

Thanks

EDIT: Well after a couple hours of playing around with the gtk2 module I've decided to just use that. It's not nearly as intimidating as it was a month ago so at least I seem to be learning ;-) ++ for the good advice!

In reply to Re^2: Perl/tk error I can't figure out by ttlgreen
in thread Perl/tk error I can't figure out by ttlgreen

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