Thank you,

The Perl-Tk version is 804.027 and here is one of the scripts which misbehaves; as you can see, it's an exercise answer from one of the earlier chapters -

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

# 123ex1 - Combination of Entry and Label widgets.
# Another segmentation fault; that's interesting.
#
# Setting the Label width forces the widget to scroll,
# otherwise it will expand the window x-wise to
# accomodate the extra text. Try -wraplength also.

use Tk;
use strict;

my $message;

my $mw = MainWindow->new;
$mw->title("Label following Entry");

$mw->Label(-textvariable => \$message,
            -width => 40)
    ->pack(-side => 'bottom', 
            -fill => 'x',);
my $e = $mw->Entry(-textvariable => \$message)
            ->pack(-expand => 1, 
                    -fill => 'x');

MainLoop;

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I agree, the book is well out of date, but it was a cheap 'pre-loved' deal on Amazon. I've already give up on the book as a tutorial. Thanks for the advice about GTk2 - I may just follow that up.

In reply to Re^2: Perl/Tk exit trouble? by Hengist
in thread Perl/Tk exit trouble? by Hengist

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