Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

  • Congratulations Chriss Miller on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Recent content by keble

  1. keble

    Perl image viewing with Tk

    Things are getting better, but I have a couple of niggles if anyone can help :-) 1) I tried the Keypress addition to stop the script, as mentioned by Kirsle: $mw->bind ("<Motion>", \&close); $mw->bind ("<ButtonPress>", \&close); # mouse clicks $mw->bind ('<KeyPress-Escape>', \&close)...
  2. keble

    Perl image viewing with Tk

    I'm using Active too - on a Mac. Likewise, installing Tk on the Mac seemed to be just too much hassle.
  3. keble

    Perl image viewing with Tk

    Thanks again - I'll try those. I came across another useful thing for a screen saver: you can get rid of the normal window bars with this: my $mw = MainWindow->new(); $mw->overrideredirect(1); ... but it doesn't leave the user a way to kill the window, so apparently you can use a bind to a...
  4. keble

    Perl image viewing with Tk

    Hi, that works! Many thanks. Not sure why but I had to change the wait($delay) to wait_something($delay) otherwise I got a syntax error. Maybe wait is a reserved word.
  5. keble

    Perl image viewing with Tk

    Here's the story so far. Notes: $tally is just a count of files; the code just tries to show 2 images, one after the other, with a delay between them (maybe the delay is the problem?) use Tk; use Tk::JPEG; my $mw = MainWindow->new(); $num=int(rand($tally))+1; $file=@file_list[$num]; my...
  6. keble

    Perl image viewing with Tk

    I'd appreciate any help with using Perl/Tk (or anything else that's suitable) to create a screen saver, which will display a list of image files, one at a time with some defined delay between. I've tried using Tk's Label. This will display one image OK, but then when I try to display the next it...

Part and Inventory Search

Back
Top