in reply to Reading screen pixels

Use the canvas widget and create more widgets inside them. When they're set perfectly, have the canvas "print" to a Postscrpt file. Tada, virtual screen capture! Tcl/Tk natively can do it; Perl I'm not too sure. Check the Tk module for a postscript command.

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$Stalag99{"URL"}="http://stalag99.keenspace.com";