Re^3: Why does widget->destroy give the error Tk::Error widget was deleted before its visibility changed?

I am facing the same problem in several places in my application where I am using a menu bound to an hlist.

I do not understand the proposed solution and how scoping plays a part

In my application I am assigning the menu object to a hash element so that I can refer to it and try to destroy it when the window is going to close. like this:

   $winInfoRef->{MENU}= $winInfoRef->{HLIST}->Menu(-tearoff=>1,
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I have recreated the problem with the originally posted example code, I changed the lines to make $pop_menu a global as suggested (and relisted below)

#~ my $pop_menu = $frame->Menu(  -menuitems =>
our $pop_menu ;
$pop_menu ||= $frame->Menu(  -menuitems =>
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but I still get the same error:

Tk::Error: window ".toplevel.frame.hlist.menu" was deleted before its 
+visibility changed at 
C:/Perl/site/lib/Tk/Widget.pm line 1000.
 Tk callback for tkwait
 <Button-1>
 (command bound to event)
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Thomas said he withdrew his menu, but I tried that too with no success(maybe I don't know how) Can anyone share more insight into this error?

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Re^4: Why does widget->destroy give the error Tk::Error widget was deleted before its visibility changed? by Anonymous Monk on Jun 12, 2017 at 04:54 UTC
to Tk-804.033, then you don't have to learn anything	[reply]
Re^5: Why does widget->destroy give the error Tk::Error widget was deleted before its visibility changed? by boleary (Scribe) on Jun 12, 2017 at 11:30 UTC
`perl -v v5.22.2 (32 bit)` [download] `perl -MTk -e "print $Tk::VERSION" shows 804.033` [download] Were you implying that this version should have fixed a problem with destroying the popup menu? Thanks!	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^6: Why does widget->destroy give the error Tk::Error widget was deleted before its visibility changed? by Anonymous Monk on Jun 12, 2017 at 22:21 UTC
I was mistaken so ignore me	[reply]