in reply to Application GUIs with PERL.

Before you give up on Tk, you may want to have a look at Tk::HList. It's a sort of extended listbox widget, with color. I've had great success with it.

As far a autosizing goes, you may just need to experiment a bit more with the geometry manager, pack() and/or place().

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Re: Re: Application GUIs with PERL.
by dusk (Friar) on Mar 16, 2001 at 07:21 UTC
    You can use Gtk. Although I'm unfamiliar with Tk, I've used Gtk; and, as I understand it, Tk is easier to work with and produces good results.
    If, however, you become interested in Gtk, this is a good resource.
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Re: Re: Application GUIs with PERL.
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 16, 2001 at 07:51 UTC
    Actually, I tried HLIST via TREE. (See previous sub about 15 down under dneedles2. It has two examples. I got 0 replies). The behavior I see is the selected item colors across the frame but unselected rows only color to the end of the text. It makes for a rather ugly app. Could you forward me an example that works?
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      It's possible that there are different responses with different OSes.. I'm not really sure if those two modules have really been tested with Win2k
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Re: Re: Application GUIs with PERL.
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 16, 2001 at 07:55 UTC
    Regarding the autosize. I have no problem with regular widgets. I'm having problems with the column headings inside the widgets. For example, in HLIST and TREE there seems to be no way to stop the columns from resizing. The language doesn't seem to handle sub widet and row items very well at all.
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