I'm trying to specify a font in a messageBox, but I can't figure out how to do this (or if it's even possible on Windows).

zentara posted some code here Re: How to get error/info/warning icons in perl /tk which appears to set a font, but it will not run on my machine. When I run zentara's code, I get this error

Tk::Error: bad option "-background": must be -default, -icon, -message
+, -parent,
 -title, or -type at C:/Perl/site/lib/Tk.pm line 318.

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I'm using Windows XP with ActiveState Perl 5.8.8 and I'm using Tk 804.028

Here is my simplified code which works... 
use strict;
use warnings;
use Tk;
   
my $mw=new MainWindow;

my $arial_font = $mw->fontCreate('normal_font',
                            -family => "Arial Unicode MS",
                            -size => "15", # point
                            );

my $mess .= "\nAre these two customers the same?";

my $response = $mw -> messageBox(
#                           -font    => 'normal_font',
                           -title   => "Duplicate customer codes detec
+ted",
                           -message => $mess,
                           -type    => 'yesno');

MainLoop;

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But when I take the # off the -font line, I get this error...

bad option "-font": must be -default, -icon, -message, -parent, -title
+, or -type
 at C:/Perl/site/lib/Tk.pm line 318.

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Is it possible that the Tk in ActiveState Perl does not accept a -font variable for a messageBox while the Unix version does? Thank you very much for any suggestions.

In reply to Can't specify font in messageBox by Theo_124

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