Yesterday I submitted this question about a bug in Win32 Perl/Tk, specifically with regard to "non-appearing" sliders in a Scrollbar widget.

Today, laboring under the illusion that this might have been fixed in the latest version of Active State Perl, I downloaded the latest version from ActiveState; version 5.8.8, binary build 819 [267479], built on August 29th, 2006.  Alas, the problem remains.

However, there's unfortunately a far more serious problem now occurring (hence the submission of this as a separate post).  When text is scrolled, the size of the scrollbar changes erratically.  Sometimes in lieu of moving, the scrollbar just grows to fill the remaining distance in the trough!

So I then tried uninstalling Active State Perl, and reinstalled the older version (v5.8.7, binary build 815 [211909], built on November 2, 2005), and the problem persists.

Does anybody else see this behavior as well?  And if so, what version of Active State Perl, and what version of Perl/Tk?

Here is the code I'm using.  I find that the address "http://wikipedia.com" shows particularly egregious results when moving the slider up and down:

#!/usr/bin/perl # # Demonstrate *very* bizarre scrollbar behavior # in Win32 Perl/Tk, version 804.027-r6. # # 061029 -- liverpole # # Strict use strict; use warnings; # User-defined my $font = "arial 10"; # Libraries use Data::Dumper; use HTML::TreeBuilder; use LWP::UserAgent; use Tk; use Tk::Canvas; use Tk::ROText; # Globals my $http_url = ""; # ============================================================= # Main Program -- create the GUI # ============================================================= # my $mw = new MainWindow(-title => "Tk Version = '$Tk::VERSION'"); my $f1 = framex($mw, "^x"); my $f2 = framex($mw, "^*{443}"); my $b0 = button($f1, ">Exit (Esc)", sub { $mw->destroy }); my $pout = rotext($f2, "^*{434}"); my $e1 = labent($f1, "<HTTP Address[,64]", \$http_url); my $b1 = button($f1, "<Load (Return)", sub { load_url($http_url, $po +ut) }); $e1->focus(); MainLoop; # ============================================================ # Subroutines # ============================================================ sub load_url { my ($url, $pout) = @_; $pout->(); ($url || 0) or return; if ($url =~ s/^http://i) { $url =~ s,^//,,; } $url = "http://$url"; my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent(agent => 'Mozilla/5.0'); my $resp = $ua->get($url); if (!$resp->is_success) { $pout->("Unable to load address '$url'", "$font bold", "red"); return; } my $content = $resp->content; my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new_from_content($content); my $text = $tree->as_HTML(); $pout->($text, $font); } sub button { my ($w, $opts, $ps) = @_; $opts =~ s/^([<>])//; my $side = ($1 eq '>')? 'right': 'left'; my @opts = (-bg => 'green'); push @opts, -text, $opts; ($ps || 0) and push @opts, -command => $ps; my $b = $w->Button(@opts); ($opts =~ s/\((.+)\)$//) and bind_button($b, $1); $b->pack(-side => $side); return $b; } sub rotext { my ($w, $opts) = @_; my $pfopts = get_exp_fill(\$opts); my @opts = (-bg => get_colors($w, \$opts)); push @opts, -wrap => 'word'; my $t = $w->Scrolled('ROText', @opts); $t->configure(-scrollbars => "osoe"); $t->pack(@$pfopts); my $tag = 0; my $psub = sub { my ($text, $font, $color) = @_; ($text || 0) or $t->delete("1.0", "end"); ($text || 0) and $t->insert("end", "$text\n", ++$tag); ($font || 0) and $t->tagConfigure($tag, -font => $font) +; ($color || 0) and $t->tagConfigure($tag, -background => $color +); # Workaround for "non-appearing slider" bug # See Perlmonks node 581114 $t->see("1.0"); $t->toplevel->update(); $t->see("end"); $t->toplevel->update(); }; return $psub; } sub framex { my ($w, $opts) = @_; $opts ||= ""; my $pfopts = get_exp_fill(\$opts); my @opts = (-bg => get_colors($w, \$opts)); if ($opts =~ s/\[(\d*),?(\d*)\]//) { my ($width, $height) = ($1, $2); ($width || 0) and push @opts, -width => $width; ($height || 0) and push @opts, -height => $height; } my $f = $w->Frame(@opts); $f->pack(@$pfopts); return $f; } sub labent { my ($w, $opts, $tv) = @_; $opts ||= ""; $opts =~ s/^([<>])//i; my $fr = framex($w, "$1n{004}"); my @lopts = (-bg => get_colors($w, \$opts)); my @eopts = (-textvar => $tv); if ($opts =~ s/\[(\d*),?(\d*)\]//) { my ($lwidth, $ewidth) = ($1, $2); ($lwidth || 0) and push @lopts, -width => $lwidth; ($ewidth || 0) and push @eopts, -width => $ewidth; } push @lopts, -text => $opts; my $lab = $fr->Label(@lopts); my $ent = $fr->Entry(@eopts); $lab->pack(-side => 'left', -expand => 1, -fill => 'y'); $ent->pack(-side => 'left', -expand => 1, -fill => 'y'); } sub get_colors { my ($w, $pstr) = @_; my %col = qw( b blue r red g green y yellow c cyan m magenta ); my %int = qw( 0 00 1 3f 2 7f 3 bf 4 ff ); ($$pstr =~ s/\{([^}]+)}//) or return $w->cget(-bg); my $bg = $1; exists($col{$bg}) and $bg = $col{$bg}; $bg =~ s/^([0-4])([0-4])([0-4])$/'#'.$int{$1}.$int{$2}.$int{$3}/e; return $bg; } sub bind_button { my ($b, $str) = @_; my $mw = $b->toplevel(); my $key = ""; ($str =~ s/^\^(.+)//) and $key = "Control-Key-" . lc($1); ($str =~ s/^(f\d+)//i) and $key = "Key-" . uc($1); ($str =~ s/^a-([bci])$//i) and $key = "Alt-Key-" . lc($1); ($str =~ s/^esc//i) and $key .= "Escape"; ($str =~ s/^return//i) and $key .= "Return"; ($str =~ s/^ret//i) and $key .= "Return"; ($str =~ s/^<cr>//i) and $key .= "Return"; ($str =~ s/^\[cr\]//i) and $key .= "Return"; ($str =~ /([a-z])$/i) and $key .= lc($1); $key or return 0; return $mw->bind("<$key>" => sub { $b->invoke() }); } sub get_exp_fill { my ($popts) = @_; my %sides = qw( < left > right ^ top v bottom ); my %fills = qw( x x y y n none b both * both ); my ($side, $exp, $fill); if ($$popts =~ s/^([<>^v])([xynb*])//i) { $side = $sides{$1}; my $exfi = $2; ($exp, $fill) = (($exfi =~ /[XYNB*]/)? 1: 0, $fills{lc $exfi}) +; } my @opts = ( ); ($side || 0) and push @opts, -side => $side; ($exp || 0) and push @opts, -expand => $exp; ($fill || 0) and push @opts, -fill => $fill; return [ @opts ]; }

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