G'day glenn,

Predefining default options is a good idea. Your problem here is that your using a hashref instead of a hash: you want %{$colors{lbl}}, not $colors{lbl}.

Also, if you put your defaults first, you can override them if you want to. E.g. 

$frame->LabEntry(
    %{$colors{lbl}},
    -other_opt => 'other_value',
    -background => 'non_default_colour'
);

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By the way, your "PS: i have also tried: ..." is wrong for all sorts of reasons. Use strict and warnings in all your scripts to pick up errors like this: 

$ perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -e '
    my %colours = ( lbl => { "-background => tan, -foreground => black
+", } );
'
Odd number of elements in anonymous hash at -e line 2.

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-- Ken

In reply to Re: tk widget options stored in hash by kcott
in thread tk widget options stored in hash by glenn

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