The book of which you complain was getting old, 10 years ago. It was the first Perl/Tk book written back in the heady days of the first Perl5's.... in other word it is obsolete and nobody cares. The book that is normally recommended by those who actually read the books, is Mastering Perl/Tk by the late Nick Ing Simmons.

Mr. Simmon's passing brings up another point about Perl/Tk, no one is actively pursuing improving the Perl/Tk port of the TCL/Tk..... Slaven Reszic is maintaining the latest Tk version, but it is starting to split off.... i think the Window's ActiveState ( which came with Tk built-in ) is now shipping their own spinoff called Tkx.

But it really dosn't matter.... if you want the latest, best, and most actively developed.... use Gtk2 or Wx ..... Tk still works, but it is falling behind Gtk2 fast like an old man chasing an 18 year old. :-) See Gtk2 free tutorial

If you can post a small code example, of code that has this exit problem, and state your Tk version, someone may know an answer..... install the latest version of Tk from cpan too.... it always pays to have the latest libs

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Old Perl Programmer Haiku

In reply to Re: Perl/Tk exit trouble? by zentara
in thread Perl/Tk exit trouble? by Hengist

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