Errata
The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".
The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.
Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
Version | Location | Description | Submitted By | Date submitted | Date corrected |
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Printed | Page xv |
Final paragraph on the page, the text used to read: |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 1, 5 Tk does not in fact come with the latest ActiveState Perl unless one |
knows that one should install Perl and then go on-line and issue PPM and |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 1 |
Added text to footnote. The text used to read: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 2 |
Paragraph 2; the text used to read: |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 4 Paragraph 7 (counting the code snippet as a paragraph), the right side of |
the paragraph had a "bumpy" edge. Justified to the right. |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 5 |
1st paragraph, 3rd line. Used to read: |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 5 |
5th paragraph, in discussion of the tar file. Used to read: |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 5 The code now reads: perl -e 'use Tk', but the "see if you already have |
the Tk module installed" fails on Win32/ActiveState installations, for |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 7 |
In code snippet near bottom of page, the line used to read: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 8 |
Paragraph 4, before 2nd code snippet. Last sentence used to read: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 8 In the next paragraph this text |
"... without having to mess with parentheses and semicolons." |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 9 |
Second code snippet on the page used to read: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 11 |
On very first line of this page, deleted the comma so the text now reads: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 11 |
Added quotes in the fourth line of sample code, it now reads: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 17 |
The second usage statement for pack used to read: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 17 In code segment, added a quotation mark |
don't send any options to pack |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 35 |
Added ellipses to first code snippet. It now reads: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 35 |
Second paragraph. Second sentence used to read: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 58 In Button Options section, the -anchor option, bolded the 'center' |
option to show that it is the default. |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 58 Under -borderwidth option, the second line, the word -relief |
was spaced widely. Tightened text. |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 59 |
Under -highlightbackground option (2nd on page), the text used to read: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 59 |
Under -justify, text used to read: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 59 |
As part of -relief option, added the -solid option. Now reads: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 62 The example for creating an anonymous sub showed the following code |
sub { # do something } |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 64 |
First paragraph, last sentence used to read: |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 64 |
5th paragraph, last sentence used to read: |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 64 6th paragraph, started with "If all this anonymous stuff is confusing.." |
replaced with: |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 65 Changed Figure 3-4 so that the second button's text is "Enable Exit," not |
"Disable Exit." |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 68 |
Last line on page, added 'solid'. Text now reads: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 75 Changed Figure 3-18 so that the second button's text is "Enable Exit," not |
"Disable Exit." |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 78 Inserted footnote, placed * in the first sentence on page |
"The highlight rectangle* is normally displayed..." |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 78 Deleted the sentence before figure 3-22 that said |
(Both buttons in Figure 3-22 have a -highlightthickness of 10) |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 85 |
Added 'solid' to the -relief option. Text now reads: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 85 |
Under -selectimage option, the text used to read: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 91 |
In Checkbutton Style section now reads: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 97 |
The -relief option now reads: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 104 |
Under the -justify option used to read: |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 107 |
In the last paragraph, the line used to read: |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 110 |
First line of code snippet on the page now reads: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 113 |
Added quotes to list of index types. The text used to read: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 117 |
Last non-code sentence on the page used to read: |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 119 |
Last code snippet on the page used to read: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 129 |
First paragraph, 4th line down. Text used to read: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 130 |
In -relief option, added 'solid.' Text now reads: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 133 |
First code snippet on the page reads: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 133 In code heading of xviewMoveto and yviewMoveto |
$widget->xviewMoveto(fraction); # or |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 134 |
Next to last paragraph, second sentence used to read: |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 137 |
First paragraph, second sentence reads: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 140 |
now reads: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 141 |
The code snippet once read: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 142 First complete sentence on the page |
"... to use the insert method to insert items into it:" |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 143 |
In the -relief option; added 'solid.' Text now reads: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 148 |
Last sentence on page used to read: |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 152 in the Listbox example, the code |
# This routine is called each time we push a keyboard key |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 154 |
usage statement at bottom of page used to read: |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 156 In the description of -insertborderwidth option, change |
Changes the width of the insert cursor. |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 156 Added 'solid' to the -relief option |
-relief => 'flat' | 'groove' | 'raised' | 'ridge' | 'sunken' | 'solid' |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 157 Description of -tabs option, change text in parens from |
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Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 160 |
In code snippet, second line used to read: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 160 On line 4: ``every _ inch'' now reads ``every .5 inch''. |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 162 In the second sentence under chars/lines modifier, change "end - 1 |
chars" to "end - 1 lines". |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 166 |
In first code example, the first line used to read: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 168 The first sentence of the page, change from |
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Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 168 4th paragraph in section "Adding a Tag to Existing Text," change |
If both tags try to alter the same option (such as -font), |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 170 1st sentence in section "Raising and Lowering Tags," change |
When there are several tags applied to the same text, |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 172 In the 'Deleting Text' paragraph, last sentence |
$text->delete(0, 'end') |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 173 In the last line, change last bullet from |
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Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 175 In the second paragraph in section "Marks", change sentence from: |
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Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 175 in the 3rd paragraph in section "Marks," change text from |
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Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 178 Line with -padx => amount and -pady => amount now have the same font. |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 184 |
Second code snippet, used to read: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 184 Third code snippet, same problem. Changed |
$c = $mw->Scrolled("canvas")->pack; |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 187 |
Added 'solid' to the -relief option. Text now reads: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 188 in code fragment under -extent option |
# This will draw _ of an oval |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 188 |
First paragraph, last sentence used to read: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 188 |
Under -extent option, last sentence used to read: |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 189 |
Under -start option, second sentence used to read: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 190 in paragraph before the -anchor option, change |
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Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 196 Change sentence under Deleting Characters from |
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Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 197 |
In fourth paragraph, first sentence used to read: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 198 |
Code snippet, first line used to read: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 200 Under addtag "closest" change sentence from |
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Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 200 Under the description of "closest" keyword, change |
There are two more possible arguments for this form of |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 200 Under the description of "enclosed" keyword, change the last |
part of paragraph from: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 200 |
Second paragraph, second sentence used to read: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 201 In section "Binding Items Using Tags," remove all Tk:: portions in front |
of Tk:: bind in code examples only. Do not change the text. |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 205 Under the -y option, change |
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Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 207 |
In the drawing program example in sub bind_start the test used to read: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 211 Under the description of -bigincrement option, change |
... causing the value to change by 1/10 the top value of the scale. |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 212 |
Added 'solid' to -relief option. Text now reads: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 213 Change 3rd sentence from |
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Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 224 Under -textvariable option, change |
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Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 224 Delete the following sentence (I think it is a version thing) |
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Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 227 In section "Radiobutton item type," change in last paragraph |
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Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 230 In the second paragraph, change |
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Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 239 In the usage of -relief option, change from |
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Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 240 In section "Menu Style," change from |
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Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 240 In the middle of the page, change sentence from |
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Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 248 In the last sentence of section "Optionmenu Widget", change from |
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Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 249 |
In the first code example, the last two lines read: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 249 In the 2nd(3rd?) paragraph ("The -command option..") change |
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Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 249 |
The first line after the code example used to read: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 252 Syntax of -colormap option, change sentence from |
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Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 253 Added 'solid' to the -relief option |
-relief => 'flat' | 'groove' | 'raised' | 'ridge' | 'sunken' | 'solid' |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 255 Near the bottom of the page, in paragraph about -visual option, change |
from: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 259 |
Added 'solid' to the -relief option. Text now reads: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 260 In the regular expression for geometry strings, the first |
two characters were reversed. The caret (^) now comes first, then the |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 265 In section "Assigning an Application Name," change section title to |
"Setting the Client Machine Name" and the contents of that section should be |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 267 the second half of the paragraph at section "The Focus Model," change |
sentence from: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 268 In section "Who Placed the Window?" change last sentence on page from |
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Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 269 In section "Not a Real Window," change the text |
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Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 272 3rd paragraph under $widget->bind(tag ...), change the text from |
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Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 274 Under Button# modifier, change from |
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Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 274 Under Double modifier, change |
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Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 280 |
The second line in first code snippet used to read: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 280 |
The fourth line in first code snippet used to read: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 289 In the last sentence, change |
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Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 304 |
Last sentence on page used to read: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 305 |
Text at top of page used to read: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 311 Added text in "The cget Method" section |
"It only returns the current value of the option..." |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 311 Added in "The cget Method" section code example (format courier) |
# return reference : |
Anonymous | May 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 336 from the footnote, change the sentence |
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Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 355 index |
Add the entry sticky, 37-38. |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 358 The last page of the index is missing (blank) from the March and May |
reprints. Please consult the online index at |
Anonymous |