I have a simple issue that I need some help with. Can someone give me a nudge in the right direction?

I am trying to define how many characters can be in a line in a Text Widget. I only want 30 characters on each line.

I do not have a piece of code that even comes close...I have looked and tried Tags and defining -rmargin, but that doesn't seem to do it....help!

#!c:\perl\bin\perl.exe -w
use Tk;


my $char= "&";

my $mw=MainWindow->new;

my $t=$mw->Scrolled("Text",-height=>'45',-width=>'80')->pack();

$t->tagConfigure('tag',-font => "Courier 24 bold",-rmargin=>50);

my $tm=500;
my $try=Tk::After->new($mw,$tm,'repeat',\&loop);
stop();
MainLoop;


sub stop 
{
$t->delete('1.0','end');
    foreach (1..500) {
    $t->insert('1.0', ' ');
    }
}

sub loop {
    $num++;
    if($num==1){first();
    }
    if($num == 3){
    second();
    }
    if($num == 4){
    third();
    }
    if($num == 5){stop();
    $num=0;}
    }

sub first {
$t->insert('1.5',$char,'tag');
}

sub second {
$t->insert('3.6',$char);
}

sub third {
$t->insert('3.7',$char);
}

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Thanks in advance,

witandhumor

In reply to Line size in a text widget by witandhumor

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