Re^2: close (unpost) Tk::Menu widget on mousbutton release

Thanks, I guess. Yes, I tried it on fedora just now and the popup thingy worked..but there were other issues, some garbage "noise" graphics appeared under the button text..maybe some KDE issue, whatever, cos it really doesn't help me since I'm on win32 (perl5.8.7|Tk804.027)..

I don't know how many times things like this have happend to me with Tk. I have to stop, bang my head against the wall and start reinventing the wheel to get something that should be working to work..in some roundabout way..and I'm starting to get oh so tired of it..

I love Tk, I really do, but I think it might be time to move on to something else soon. The "RAD factor" is not that huge with Tk when things are broken all the time. Endof rant. (tired).

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Re^3: close (unpost) Tk::Menu widget on mousbutton release by zentara (Cardinal) on Apr 18, 2006 at 21:33 UTC
Ha ha. Yeah, blame Tk, and threaten to use something else. They always come back :-) Why not blame Microsoft, and threaten to dump them? Things are always harder to do on Win32. Tk make doing most things very easy, so for 95% of all projects, it's easiest to do in Tk. I was getting fed up like you, thought, " yeah I'll switch to Gtk2", then I find out that Gtk2 has it's share of problems, and while it gives you alot of control, you spend much more more time setting up and figuring out the signal chains. Then try to figure out settings colors in Gtk2..... it's so easy in Tk. So "6 of one, half dozen of the other". I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh	[reply]
Re^4: close (unpost) Tk::Menu widget on mousbutton release by ldln (Pilgrim) on Apr 19, 2006 at 01:12 UTC
I love to use Linux all the time, but I'm bound to too many apps on win32 that I don't have time to relearn on another platform at the moment. zentara, u ever work with Tcl::Tk? If so: 1)What do u think about it? 2)Do we have to fiddle around with Tcl-code to get stuff to work? and 3)can we use all widgets from Tcl, for example Tkhtml (looks wonderful)? 4)Does this package have problems with memory leaks? 5)Does it work well on windows? If u can't answer them, maybe courage can? Also, anyone know when next release of perl/Tk is arriving? I've hardly seen Nick or Slaven in the Tk newsgroup these last few months?!	[reply]
Re^5: close (unpost) Tk::Menu widget on mousbutton release by zentara (Cardinal) on Apr 19, 2006 at 11:24 UTC
I havn't used Tcl/Tk. Since Perl/Tk is derived from Tcl/Tk, I would assume that they are quite similar, except for the Tcl syntax. There is an ongoing argument going on in comp.lang.perl.tk about whether the Perl/Tk is better than Tcl/Tk, the argument being that Tcl is the original source, so there are bound to be glitches in the conversion. The response of course, is that Perl/Tk is better because it's Perl, not Tcl. :-) The releases of Perl/Tk always lag behind the latest release of Tcl/Tk. I think that Tcl already at the 8.5 level(still classified as devel), where Perl/Tk is still at 8.4 Nick and Slaven are always lurking in comp.lang.perl.tk but they are selective in what questions they answer, leaving most simpler stuff to others to answer. They are there. I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh	[reply]
Re^6: close (unpost) Tk::Menu widget on mousbutton release by ldln (Pilgrim) on Apr 19, 2006 at 17:31 UTC