Mastering Perl/Tk

Chapter 9. The Canvas Widget

The Canvas widget is used mainly for drawing items such as arcs, lines, rectangles, circles, and so on, but you can also place text and other widgets inside a Canvas widget. Here are some examples of how you can use a Canvas widget:

• Create a drawing program.

• Display a graph based on input from the user.

• Create a customized slider.

Figure 9-1 shows a Canvas widget.

Figure 9-1. Canvas widget

Each item you create in a Canvas widget is assigned a unique item ID, which is a positive integer. Using an item’s ID is a common way of addressing individual Canvas items, but you can devise tag names and use them as well. All Canvas items can have bindings attached to them for easy interaction with the user.