Hello toolic,

Yes, I can reproduce this exactly. And from playing around with it, I found the following, which seems to work correctly:

#! perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Tk;
use Tk::Table;

my $mw    = MainWindow->new();
my $upper = $mw   ->Frame()->pack(-side => 'top');
my $but1  = $upper->Frame()->pack();
my $lower = $mw   ->Frame()->pack(-side => 'bottom');
my $table = $lower->Table(-rows => 3, -columns => 5)->pack;

upd_table();

$but1->Button
(
    -text    => 'update',
    -command => sub { upd_table() },
)->pack();

MainLoop();
exit;

sub upd_table
{
    $table->clear() if $table;

    for my $row (0 .. 2)
    {
        for my $col (0 .. 4)
        {
            my $x = int rand 10;
            my $cell = $table->Entry(-width => 4, -text => $x);
            $table->put($row, $col, $cell);
        }
    }
}

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That is, I just moved the line

$table = $lower->Table(-rows => 3, -columns => 5)->pack;

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from the subroutine to the main code. No idea why this works, though. :-O

Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

In reply to Re: Tk::Table clear creates unwanted boxes by Athanasius
in thread Tk::Table clear creates unwanted boxes by toolic

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