But, where do I find dnd_demo (not anywhere on my sytem, CPAN, or this site, and a web search would turn up non-domain results--i.e., the game dungeons and dragons, dnd).

Also, the T::DropSite doc didn't tell me much (aside from the pod commands, the only real 'meat' was:

 use Tk::DropSite qw(...);
 $widget->DropSite(-entercommand => ...,
                   -dropcommand  => ...,
                   -motioncommand  => ...,
                   -dropcommand  => ...,
                  );
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I don't have the latest version of Perl/Tk if that's a probelm (the only way to get it for active state is to have VC++, recommended v.6, if another way I'd be glad to know)

As I messaged you, you can handle tarballs with winzip. Also, you can search Tk related packages on search.cpan.org. Tk-DKW seems a good complement to raw Tk, specially TK::IconCanvas even if the documentation is... sketchy.

I am not a windows user so I would not dare to ask you to switch from ActiveState ppm to the cpan installer. This subjet has probably be treated before...

-- stefp -- check out TeXmacs wiki

It is years I have not used Tk so I read some docs to refresh my memory. I would indeed implement the "table" with a Tk::Canvas and the cards with bitmaps items. You need to add handlers to move the cards. I will probably send some some code if I can get some juice from my brain cells.

I first thought using TopLevel windows for moved cards and using Tk::wm overrideredirect to ask the window manager not to decorate the said windows/cards, But this is more complex and does probably work only on X-Window.

-- stefp -- check out TeXmacs wiki

I don't know if its a big deal, but the cards are Photo types (they're .gif so Bitmap wouldn't be appropriate I don't think, and as the book I got tells me, bitmap isn't what the 'Windows' world thinks of, so I couldn't just convert it using Paint Shop Pro, for example).

Thanks though, I'll go off to re-read on TK::Canvas and "table".