Tk/Widget.pm Bad Option

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Re: Tk/Widget.pm Bad Option by zentara (Cardinal) on Feb 07, 2005 at 15:54 UTC
Im not entirely positive which version made the switch, but I think it was the last one ( or 026). They made a switch from it being based on the old TCL version 800 to the later version 804. If you look on cpan, PerlTk went from version 800.025 to 804.026 in 1 step. I'm sure that was where it changed the behavior you describe. I guess you could check the Changelogs. I know it breaks alot of old scripts,(I've had to search and replace a few myself) but it does "tightenup" the code. The old method, let you get away with some "sloppy options". I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh	[reply]
Re: Tk/Widget.pm Bad Option by aquarium (Curate) on Feb 07, 2005 at 16:31 UTC
looks like it was accepting sloppy options before, and is no longer. try "-side" instead of "side" the hardest line to type correctly is: stty erase ^H	[reply]
Re: Tk/Widget.pm Bad Option by JamesNC (Chaplain) on Feb 07, 2005 at 21:33 UTC
I don't know if this will help, but I got this same error when I upgraded to 804.027. I was using a LabEntry and found that this was a case of making sure to use the strict notation verse the shorthand which Lidie's book says is ok need to do this `-labelPack=>[-side=> 'left'],` [download] and not this `-labelPack, [-side, 'left' ]` [download] which used to work fine, and in fact some of widgets still let you use the shorthand... but others don't ( you can't use short hand with place ) JamesNC	[reply] [d/l] [select]