in reply to [Tkx] Widget's helpin box.

Yes, you are looking for "balloons". I don't use Tkx, as it's special to windows, but google for "perl Tk balloon example" and you will get the idea of how it is done. The Tkx distribution must have a balloon example in it's release, maybe grep thru the example directory, or docs, for the word "balloon".

P.S. I guess Tkx is cross-platform....I'll have to check it out.

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Re^2: [Tkx] Widget's helpin box.
by sebapabst (Acolyte) on Feb 20, 2010 at 15:17 UTC

    You're Great! That's exactly what I was looking for!!

    The problem now is that perldocs says that tk::Balloon is a Tix extension of Tk, but i don't know how to access it via Tkx. I will maybe ask this by a general question about extensions traduction on another post.

    Thanks a lot!

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Re^2: [Tkx] Widget's helpin box.
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 20, 2010 at 17:38 UTC
    Tkx is not special to windows
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      Yes, I did get the Tkx module for linux off of cpan, but I must say it seems to be leaning toward supporting Windows more. First, the linux module, essentially says to learn Tcl, in order to use it. Whearas, from what I hear on Windows, the developers have a nice RAD interface to it, and probably nice docs for the functions. I have nothing against it, and hope it flourishes. However, I do see the future of GUI toolkits being based either on the Gtk2 or KDE libs. At the present, IMO, the gtk+ libs are the best choice to look at because it is fully open source, and gaining much support as Ubuntu style linux systems propagate out.
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        First, the linux module, essentially says to learn Tcl, in order to use it.

        What linux module? Tkx::Tutorial basically teaches you enough Tcl to be able to read Tcl/Tk docs, and its meant for Windows people too.

        Whearas, from what I hear on Windows, the developers have a nice RAD interface to it, and probably nice docs for the functions.

        Who/what/where? Sounds like a bunch of lies. When I'm forced into Tkx, I rely on http://docs.activestate.com/activetcl/8.5/full_toc.html, but there were always holes in Tk docs.

        However, I do see the future of GUI toolkits being based either on the Gtk2 or KDE libs. At the present, IMO, the gtk+ libs are the best choice to look at because it is fully open source, and gaining much support as Ubuntu style linux systems propagate out.

        Ok? :) My observation, Perl/Tk has been dead for the past 10 years. At least Tkx gets past the problem with Perl/Tk, but the underlying Tcl/Tk isn't that much livelier :)

        From time to time I hear someone mention KDE, but AFAIK its vaporware :p

        Gtk2 looks like it has a future, but for a long time it didn't compile for windows.

        Wx has been running on windows for a long while, its fully open source, easy to extend... :D

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