Hello dear monks,
I am trying to use JBrowseEntry so I can have hidden tags for items in a listbox.
According to the specification of JBRowseEntry, if I insert a hashref then reading the text variable or using get should return the key corresponding to the value selected.
It doesn't seem to work this way.
Code snippet: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use Tk;
require Tk::JBrowseEntry;


my %color_of = (
    "apple"  => "red",
    "orange" => "orange",
    "grape"  => "purple",
);

my $MW = MainWindow->new(
    -title      => 'Jbrowse',
    -name       => 'Demo',
);

my $var = "red";
my $tmp_jbe = $MW->JBrowseEntry(-textvariable=>\$var, -width=>10,
        -state=>'normal',
    -btntakesfocus=>0, )->pack();
$tmp_jbe->insert('end',\%color_of);  
my $but = $MW->Button( -text    => "Print Value",
            -width   => 30,
            -height  => 3,
            -command => sub { 
                my $value = $tmp_jbe->get();
                print "Var = $var, Get Result $value\n";
            }
    )->pack();
MainLoop;

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