Re: Funny business with Perl/Tk 804.027-4, Entry and Optionmenuwidgets.

I made a hash of the version numbering. Apologies.

Perl/Tk 804.027 caused me the probems and required the work-arounds mentioned. 
I installed it from a package. The package manager says:

wk@asus:~$ dpkg --status perl-tk
Package: perl-tk
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: perl
Installed-Size: 9936
Maintainer: Michael C. Schultheiss <[email protected]>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1:804.027-4
Replaces: libtk-png-perl
Provides: libtk-perl, libtk-png-perl
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1), libjpeg62, libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.8rel), libx11-6, 
zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1), perlapi-5.8.7, perl (>= 5.8.7-10)
Conflicts: libtk-png-perl
Description: Perl module providing the Tk graphics library.
 Perl/Tk (also known as pTk or ptk) is a collection of modules and
 code that attempts to wed the easily configured Tk 4 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).
 .
 A good place to get started is by running the "widget" demo that's
 installed with this package.
wk@asus:~$  


> >Some comments on Perl/Tk 804.027-4, recently installed from Debian
> >unstable.
> >
> >This version broke my code (which worked perfectly with Perl/Tk 800  -
> >Debian Sarge package) in three places.
>
> Tk800 -> Tk804 is quite a major change.
>
> Tk800 has not been under active development for years, last
> patch I have recorded is back in 2002.
>
> Tk804 is much closer to mainstream tk core (but is still slipping).
>
> >Using Perl/Tk 800.027, the Entry widget caused me problems:

Sorry...that should have read '804.027'.

<snip>

> I don't know what the -4 suffix might mean.

I suspect it is a package suffix.

<snip>

> Please clarify _EXACTLY_ what $Tk::VERSION was on version which
> worked and version which doesn't.

Version that worked: 800-025
Version that doesn't: 804-027

> If you really meant Tk800 then yes Tk804 it is incompatible in several
> ways with it, but maintaining Tk800 diverged from core Tk was becoming
> impossible.

Fair enough. 

I wasn't aware of compatibility issues between 800 and 804 - the Entry widget 
doc reads the same - so I posted the story to provide a pointer for other 
users. It took me a bit of time to figure it out.

Wilbert Knol
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