Tk::HTML

[gerhard.p...@philips.com]

Hi all,

I'd like to write my user documentation in HTML and offer
it in a separate toplevel window within a scrolled text widget.

I thought, the Tk::HTML module would help me with that,
but when I installed it, I got nearly no docu about methods
etc.
The readme said, that libnet and libwww-perl would be
required, so I installed these to, but they also give me no
clue about how to use HTML in a text widget.

Does anybody know?

Thanks and regards,
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[John L. Allen]

gerhard.p...@philips.com wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to write my user documentation in HTML and offer
> it in a separate toplevel window within a scrolled text widget.
>
> I thought, the Tk::HTML module would help me with that,
> but when I installed it, I got nearly no docu about methods
> etc.
> The readme said, that libnet and libwww-perl would be
> required, so I installed these to, but they also give me no
> clue about how to use HTML in a text widget.

You want Tk::Web. For example:

use Tk;
use Tk::Web;

my $url = '/etc/motd';
my $mw = tkinit;
my $top = $mw->toplevel;

my $web = Tk::Web->new($top)->pack(-fill => "both", -expand => "yes");
$web->url($url);

MainLoop;

Tk::Web is ok for simple html, but it really needs an update.

John.