The idea of wish is that you read from <STDIN> and evaluate each statement. The standard way to do this in Perl/Tk is to use the tkpsh script that comes in your Perl/Tk build directory. Another elegant way to get wish like behavior in Perl/Tk is to use rmt which you can find in perl5/Tk/demos in your Perl/Tk distribution. When you run rmt you already have Tk.pm set up for you so you can start typing things like $mmm = new MainWindow; etc. at the rmt: prompt.

Perl/Tk (also known as pTk or ptk) is a collection of modules and code that attempts to wed the easily configured Tk 8 widget toolkit to the powerful lexigraphic, dynamic memory, I/O, and object-oriented capabilities of Perl 5. In other words, it is an interpreted scripting language for making widgets and programs with Graphical User Interfaces (GUI). (Examples of widget programs [not necessarily written in Perl/Tk] include xterm, xclock, most web-browsers, etc.

Start your script as you would any perl script (e.g. #!/usr/bin/perl, #!/usr/local/bin/perl, #!/opt/bin/perl, [built static? then #!/usr/bin/tkperl], whatever, see the perlrun(1) man page for more information).

Assuming that you have a pressing need to call Tcl from Perl/Tk then one "official way" to so would be via the ->send() and the ->Receive() methods. It is also worth noting that you can still have access to a complete Tcl script from perl via the perl system, or '' (backtick), or even exec mechanisms. Just be careful with I/O waits and return values if you try one of these approaches. Further suggestions may be found in the various perlipc files at: ftp://ftp.perl.

Not for the latest version - but the -w switch and use strict; are always helpful with debugging as they provide informative error messages. You can, of course, run under the standard perl debugger using the -d switch like so: perl -d myscript But it is recommended that you set you breakpoints carefully since just the calls to ManWindow->new require many steps. Older information): Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.

Work has reputedly (January 1996) started on porting a Tcl/Tk GUI builder known as SpecTcl for use with Perl/Tk. For the Tcl/Tk SpecTcl kit see: ftp://ftp.sunlabs.com/pub/tcl/SpecTcl-*.tar.[gz|Z] and address questions about SpecTcl to <spectcl@tcl.eng.sun.com>. In <news:ANDREAS.96Mar24234521@marvin.berlin.de> Andreas Koschinsky <marvin@logware.

brings a new and exciting answer to this question: PAR, a "Cross-Platform Packaging and Deployment tool", originally developed by Autrijus Tang. Before PAR, the only public support for Perl/Tk "compilation" was in the Dr.

Considering that both interpreters/(compiler) for Tcl and Perl were written in C for original use on Unix computers it is not surprising that there are some similarities between the two languages. Nevertheless, there are a large number of differences between the Tcl language and the Perl language. One thing to keep in mind is that to build, install, and use Perl/Tk one does not need to have Tcl/Tk on hand at all. Perl/Tk is completely independent of Tcl/Tk.

Nick Ing-Simmons has written a (rather lengthy) tcl2perl script. It is distributed with the Perl/Tk build kit. Please handle carefully! (translation: do not expect it to translate arbitrary tcl code accurately nor even into the most efficient Perl/Tk equivalent. Do go over the converted script with care - and do not forget -w and use strict;.) Thanks Nick :-)

Longer answer: In order to build Perl/Tk from source code you do need a recent version of perl, the Perl/Tk source code kit, a graphical user interface library such as Xlib, Presentation Manager, or Win32; a C or C++ compiler, and a make utility. In some rare cases Perl/Tk binaries are distributed for some platforms but that is more the exception than a general rule (see below). If you will be attempting to port Perl/Tk to your platfrom then you might want to consult the document at: http://w4.

InputOnly There are (a lot of) other [compound|composite|constructs] available too. You can also synthesize new widgets out of these primitives using perl5's object-oriented multiple inheritance features. You can even build entirely new widget primitives from raw C (XS) code then use and re-use that. (Perl 5 is extremely configurable.) A good introduction to the primitives and how they may be used in conjunction with each other may be found in the widget demo script.

Presuming this question is asking for a little more than the answer you get when you type: ls perl5/lib/Tk/*.pm there are ways to find out what gets EXPORTED by Tk.pm. Use a script like: #!/usr/bin/perl use Tk; require 'dumpvar.pl'; dumpvar('Tk'); or more succintly at the shell command prompt: perl -e 'use Tk; require "dumpvar.pl"; dumpvar("Tk");' The advantage of using dumpvar over ls is that it gives you a brief summary of all the arguments your widgets want.

With an up to date perl installation one may query the local perl setup and all extensions via the command: perldoc perllocal For the Tk extension: version numbering has changed recently and determining the version of Perl/Tk that you are running now depends on what version you are running: Tk-b10 (and higher) has changed to $Tk::VERSION (rather than the older "$Tk:Version") to be consistent with other packages.

In principle you may specify the -font configuration option on all your Button, Entry, Label, Message, etc. widgets. In addition to the Unix programs xfontsel and xlsfonts you may find xset useful for determining and/or specifying fonts - especially international ones. KOBAYASI Hiroaki <kobayasi@sowa.is.uec.ac.jp> has converted the Tcl/Tk "japanization" by <nisinaka@sra.co.jp> so that it may be used with Perl/Tk.

Your very own Perl/Tk distibution: The following programs may be found in your own Tk#/ directory (you already have these if you have the Tk extension to perl)*: program description pfm perl file manager - cute iconic front to emacs ptknews a GUI perl newsreader - a work in progress. tkpsh Perl/Tk equivalent of the Tcl/Tk wish shell. toyedit a Text widget editor.

TkPerl was originally the name of a (now unsupported) perl 4 package that Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk> at Oxford University gave to his code to wed the Tk X toolkit with Perl. (He has since referred to that package as a different "kettle of fish" from perl/Tk.) Since that beginning Malcolm has also come up with a Tcl module for perl 5 that has a Tcl::Tk module extension. That module allows the use of Tcl within a Perl script (i.e.

tkperl5a5 is announced Thu, 20 Oct 1994 14:44:23 +0000 (BST) NOTE This project is unrelated to the one which is adding usersubs to perl4 to get access to Tk via Tcl. Often, postings on comp.lang.perl just say "tkperl" without saying which one is meant. They are two totally different kettles of fish. --Malcolm (Beattie) Fri, 25 Nov 94 14:29:53 GMT Nick Ing-Simmons is working on what will be known as "nTk" eventually. an RFD (Request For Discussion) for a new usenet group comp.lang.perl.

No not yet. But according to Nick Ing-Simmons: If app. can take XID of window to draw on it should be doable now, but if Tk has to pro-actively watch for creation of app's 'top level', and "capture" it is more tricky.