Thanks, zentara,

I'll do that. Another monk (Thanks, stefbv) suggested I tried Gtk2 as it has greater current support, but in the brief look I took this afternoon, it's bigger, noisier and less intuitive than Perl/Tk. One of the things I love about Perl is the simplicity, and lack of unnecessary typing.

I'm hoping that 804.028 may also help with the other bug I've uncovered; the mess made if I try to bind a key sequence involving the Ctrl key. For whatever reason, it transposes the last two characters in a Text widget; and I'm having to use the Alt key until I find a fix. Ho-hum.

Thanks once again; I'm off to CPAN!

Yeah Tk is far easier to learn and start out with....I would use it at as a first GUI for teaching GUI principles. The Tk::Canvas and Tk::Zinc widgets are still my first choice when wanting to write something complex. The problem with Tk is that it dosn't handle transparent colors, threads, nor themes(look and feel) very well. Gtk2 does all that.

See a Zinc beginners tutorial

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