Hello PerlMonks,

This is a TableMatrix row selection question. I noticed that there is a four year old thread on this http://perlmonks.com/?node_id=840707. However I later felt that it is better to post it as a new question

1. Where do I find what are all the fields that a Perl/Tk programmer can access from an XEvent object and what do those fields stand for? (Mastering Perl/Tk book by Oreilly Press doesn't give any details except Chapter 15 http://oreilly.com/catalog/mastperltk/chapter/ch15.html merely makes a mention of it when accessing 'K' and 'N' for keysym text and decimal). I also looked at Widget.pm which has following line 
sub XEvent { shift->{'_XEvent_'} }

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but I'm unable to go any further than this to understand the same.

2. In the selectionSet and selectionIncludes methods the above specified thread used the values: '@' . $Ev->x . "," . $Ev->y what does this @ and the full expression stand for. I could not find anything in the perldocs for TableMatrix (and other widgets like TList decendants which also have these methods).

As I'm still trying to learn Perl and Perl/Tk I had to spend few hours trying to look around but to no avail. Therefore any information would be very useful. Many Thanks

In reply to A TableMatrix row selection question by Anonymous Monk

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