Hello Monks,

I have a large script which generates a progress window while doing several computation steps.

But, although using ->pack(-anchor=>'nw');, the text in the progress window appears in the middle of the window.

This overcharges my lore...

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use Tk;
use Tk::Pane;

$mw=MainWindow->new();
$mw->geometry("100x100");
$mw->Button(-text=>"START",-command=>\&start_computation)->pack;

MainLoop;

sub start_computation
    {
    $progress=$mw->Toplevel();
    $progress->geometry("100x100");
    $pane=$progress->Scrolled('Pane',-scrollbars=>'osoe')->pack(-fill=
+>'both',-expand=>1);
    $text="Computation started...\n";
    $label=$pane->Label(-text=>$text)->pack(-anchor=>'nw');
    
    # doing several computation steps
    foreach$step(1..10)
        {
        sleep(1);
        $text.="Step $step finished.\n";
        $label->destroy;
        $label=$pane->Label(-text=>$text)->pack(-anchor=>'nw');
        $pane->update;
        }
    
    $text.="\nComputation finished.\n";
    $label->destroy;
    $label=$pane->Label(-text=>$text)->pack(-anchor=>'nw');
    $pane->update;
    
    $pane->Button(-text=>"QUIT",-command=>sub{exit;})->pack;
    }

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In reply to Perl Tk: pack option does't work by Microcebus

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