One book that helped me was: Learning Perl/Tk by Nancy Walsh.

There are 3 geometry managers in Tk: pack, place and grid. The most common is pack.

A "frame" is like a sub-area of a window. You can "pack" things into frames and frames into windows or other frames. To make 2 widgets appear above one another, make a frame, then "pack" the 2 widgets into that frame. A "Frame" is like a sub-set rectangle of a window but without visible borders.

A "gui builder" is not necessary with Tk. The easy way is to draw by hand what you are trying to create. Use pencil and paper! Draw a line around each widget. Then draw the frames. This mainly has to do with the vertical placement of groups of widgets along a "row".

There are other GUI's that I've heard about for Perl. But Tk works well.

In reply to Re: Specifying the Position of widget by Marshall
in thread Specifying the Position of widget by mld

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