Hello, I'm really having trouble with PERL/TK and colorization of data. (Haven't got an answer to my previous question yet on Colorization and Tree/Hlist. The colorization works but looks ugly since the lengths for selected and unselected data are different.) What I'd like to do is something like this and eventually use TiedListbox:

#!/usr/local2/bin/perl -w
use Tk;

$t=new MainWindow;
$l=$t->Listbox();
$l->insert('end','make this red');
$l->insert('end','make this blue');
$l->insert('end','make this green');
$l->pack;
$t->Button(-text => 'exit',-command => sub {exit;})->pack;
MainLoop;
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This fails though. The best I could come up with was ditch the Tk:Listbox and use a Tk:Text instead...

  #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
  use Tk;

  $t=new MainWindow;
  $l=$t->Text;
  $l->insert('end',"make this red\n", 'red');
  $l->insert('end',"make this blue\n", 'blue');
  $l->insert('end',"make this green\n", 'tagForGreen');
  $l->pack;

  $l->tag(configure => 'red', -foreground => 'red');
  $l->tag(configure => 'blue', -foreground => 'blue');
  $l->tag(configure => 'tagForGreen', -foreground => 'green');

  $t->Button(-text => 'exit',-command => sub {exit;})->pack;
  MainLoop;
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This is not exactly idea for dealing with matrix data. I'm getting a little soured on Perl::TK and its lack of data control in HLIST/TREE and LISTBOX/TIEDLISTBOX. Are there any other graphical packages with PERL that are more flexible? Thanks, Daniel L. Needles