Hello Chuma,

I was able to find a solution with some help from Re: Determine canvas object under click (Tk), and Mastering Perl Tk Chapter 9.6 - Creating Items in a Canvas - The Widget Item.

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use feature qw/say/;
use Tk;

#create a couple of arbitrary widgets
my $main = MainWindow->new;
my $can = $main->Canvas(-width => 600, -height => 400)->pack;
my $lab = $can->Label(-text => "AAAAAAAA");
my $but = $can->Button(-text => "BBBBBBBB");

# The Label and Button methods used above do not have a '-tags' option
+. So as
# suggested by Mastering Perl/Tk, the createWindow method can be used 
+to add
# tags

$can->createWindow(100, 100, -window => $lab, -tags => ['MyLabel']);
$can->createWindow(300, 150, -window => $but, -tags => ['MyButton']);

# use a key binding to invoke an event
$main->bind('<KeyPress-a>',sub{

    # The method used below was shown in:
    # http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=987386

    $can->addtag( qw/current closest/, $Tk::event->x, $Tk::event->y );
    my @tags = grep {$_ ne 'current'} $can->gettags(qw/current/);
    $can->dtag(qw/current current/);
    say @tags;
});

MainLoop;

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In reply to Re: Tk - finding what's being pointed at by kevbot
in thread Tk - finding what's being pointed at by Chuma

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