Perl/Tk: For Beginners

perl.j has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have been doing Perl programs for about a week now and I've been catching on very quickly (according to my family who already knows Perl).

They've been telling me that I should start SIMPLE Perl/Tk. There is just one problem.

I don't know how to use Tk. One of my biggest problems is when I tried to get Tk from PPM, the only thing that came up was Tkx. I got that but the Tk programs I wrote did not work.

I would greatly appreciate the help. I know I could research the problem but I find that PerlMonks gives me exactly what I need. Thanks in advance!

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Re: Perl/Tk: For Beginners by Anonymous Monk on Jul 02, 2011 at 16:15 UTC
I know I could research the problem but I find that PerlMonks gives me exactly what I need. Thanks in advance! See Tutorials, A Guide To Installing Modules http://kobesearch.cpan.org/dist/Tk http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/htdocs/faqs/ppm.html http://ppm4.activestate.com/author/SREZIC.html http://docs.activestate.com/activeperl/5.14/bin/ppm.html http://www.tkdocs.com/tutorial/onepage.html?langs=perl Tcl::pTk How to RTFM	[reply]
Re^2: Perl/Tk: For Beginners by perl.j (Pilgrim) on Jul 02, 2011 at 17:44 UTC
Thank you but the links above show how to install/use Perl/Tk. Tk is not in PPM so I really can't use Tk. All I see is Tkx. Thanks for the info though.	[reply]
Re^3: Perl/Tk: For Beginners by davies (Prior) on Jul 02, 2011 at 18:49 UTC
It certainly appears in PPM on MY machine. At the risk of stating the obvious, have you got the case right? `F:\>ppm install Tk Downloading Tk-804.029...done Unpacking Tk-804.029...done Generating HTML for Tk-804.029...done Updating files in site area...done 822 files installed F:\>perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 12 subversion 2) configuration +: Platform: osname=MSWin32, osvers=5.00, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread <snip>` [download] Regards, John Davies	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Perl/Tk: For Beginners by perl.j (Pilgrim) on Jul 02, 2011 at 19:31 UTC
Re^5: Perl/Tk: For Beginners by davies (Prior) on Jul 02, 2011 at 21:46 UTC
Re: Perl/Tk: For Beginners by spx2 (Deacon) on Jul 02, 2011 at 18:17 UTC
I had better experiences with Gtk2. If you want to try it out. you can find sourceforge documentation here, a tutorial here. Also have a look at the documentation of all these modules right here. If you want to take a look inside Gtk2, the development repository is here -> Gtk2.	[reply]
Re^2: Perl/Tk: For Beginners by perl.j (Pilgrim) on Jul 02, 2011 at 23:58 UTC
Thank You all for the great help.	[reply]

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