Re: Perl Tk entry widget

"Is there any option similar to command option for buttons which can be used if an entry is done to entry widget?"

Tk::Entry's -validatecommand option seems closest to what you want: it can specify a callback to use when the Tk::Entry widget receives input.

In that same documentation, also see the -validate and -invalidcommand options; the validate() method; and the VALIDATION section.

— Ken

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Re^2: Perl Tk entry widget by Mj1234 (Sexton) on Feb 25, 2016 at 09:09 UTC
Hello Ken, The -validatecommand does not work if manually some text is written to the entry widget	[reply]
Re^3: Perl Tk entry widget by beech (Parson) on Feb 25, 2016 at 23:32 UTC
The -validatecommand does not work if manually some text is written to the entry widget See https://metacpan.org/pod/Tk::Entry#VALIDATION, by default no validation is performed `#!/usr/bin/perl -- use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dump qw/ pp /; use Tk; my $mw = tkinit; $mw->Entry( -validate => 'all', -validatecommand => sub { warn pp(\@_); return 1 if !length$_[0] or $_[0] =~ m{^\d+$}; return undef; }, )->pack; $mw->MainLoop;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Perl Tk entry widget by kcott (Archbishop) on Feb 26, 2016 at 04:17 UTC
Having spent a fair amount of time digging up all the relevant sections in Tk::Entry, so that you didn't have to read the entire documentation, I'm less than impressed that you chose to respond with nothing more than: "The -validatecommand does not work if manually some text is written to the entry widget" Kindly show an example of your code that demonstrates the"does not work" behaviour you describe. Ensure you include the part where you change the value of the `-validate` option from its default, as described in Tk::Entry - VALIDATION: none Default. This means no validation will occur. — Ken	[reply] [d/l]