I dug through the archive and found a similar problem posted regarding
setPalette under Solaris. So I tried the suggested workaround in that post:
1. Issue the setPalette call right after creating the main window.
2. Use the 'interactive' priority option.
So for example:
$mainwidget = Tk::Ma
An obscure and probably (?) highly specific problem. When I install the
"Apache/Perl (binaries for both Perl-5.6/Apache-1.0/mod_perl-1 and
Perl-5.8/Apache-2/mod_perl-2)" from the ports page
(http://www.cpan.org/ports/index.html#win32), using setPalette in my pTk
programs works fine under XP Pr