Hi Monks, especially the followers of the Tk cult. Is there a more elegant way how to change the behaviour of a button in a Tk dialog? Using Walk works correctly, but the code is long and unreadable. Having a more straightforward way of identifying the button object would be great (ideally something like $dialog->get_button_by_text('OK');).

#! /usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

use Tk;

sub show_dialog {
    my ($mw) = @_;
    my $dialog = $mw->Dialog(-buttons => ['OK', 'Cancel']);
    my $lb = $dialog->Listbox(
        -listvariable => my $valid = [ 'valid', 'invalid' ]
    )->pack;

    $dialog->Walk(sub {
        my $widget = shift;
        if ('Button' eq $widget->class && 'OK' eq $widget->cget('-text
+')) {
            my $orig = $widget->cget('-command');

            $widget->configure(-command => sub {
                if ('valid' eq $valid->[ $lb->curselection->[0] ]) {
                    $orig->[0]->();

                } else {
                    $dialog->Dialog(-title   => 'Invalid',
                                    -text    => 'Invalid',
                                    -bitmap  => 'error',
                                    -buttons => [ 'OK' ]
                                   )->Show;
                }
            });
        }
    });

    $dialog->Show;
}

my $mw  = 'MainWindow'->new(-title => 'Validation');

$mw->Button(-text    => 'Show Dialog',
            -command => [\&show_dialog, $mw])->pack;

$mw->Button(-text    => 'Quit',
            -command => \&Tk::exit)->pack;

MainLoop();

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In reply to Change the Behaviour of a Button in Tk::Dialog by choroba

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