ActiveState, TK, and w2k

[eLore]

Has anyone gotten TK to work with ActiveState 5.6.1 and Tk on Windows 2000? I'm trying to run the demo scripts (eg. floor.pl) and getting nothing. The script appears to execute, with no output. No error messages, no window pop.

Thoughts? (other than go find a nice *nix workstation =) )

[Chmrr]

The canonical demo script to run to test is widget. It should have been put into C:\perl\bin (or equivilent) when the Tk ppm was installed. If that doesn't run, then you've got problems.

perl -pe '"I lo*`+$^X$\"$]!$/"=~m%(.*)%s;$_=$1;y^`+*^e v^#$&V"+@( NO CARRIER'

[eLore]

Addendum: <BL>
• executed floor.pl demo via perl -W... no messages
• Inserted a few print statements. demo's don't appear to actually do anything, just lots of sub definitions
• Reinstalled Tk for giggles
<BL>

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Thanks to Chmrr for pointing out what I should have read in the documentation. widget.bat is the launcher for the demos.


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[rbc]

Are you starting the scripts from a C:> prompt?

If so, try adding some print statements.

[thunders]

In older Active State releases Tk needed to be installed via ppm. Newer perl builds from AS come with Tk, In either case I've never had a problem running Tk on and build of windows(having worked with NT,2K,ME, and 98SE)


The reason floor.pl doesn't run, well look at the code, it doesn't use Tk;, for one thing. floor.pl is one of a few dozen scripts initialized through the widget demo. widget is installed on the path so you can run it from any directory by typing widget, or from Start->Run. On the widget demo, floor is under "Canvas #6. A building floor plan"

[danichka]

Have you tried running it with warnings?

use Your::Head;