Hi all, I have a Perl/Tk question for which I haven't been able to find an answer in the excellent "Mastering Perl/Tk" book. I am creating a database interface for use on Windows, and so far Tk has been perfect for it. Here's my problem. I've created two items on a drop-down menu to control the sort method applied to the results of a db query. If the user selects option 1, she'll get a list of products sorted by item number. If she selects option 2, she'll get the same list, sorted by sales dollars. So I set it up by passing different parameters to the subroutine which does the query. Like so: 
$action->command(-label=>"Sort by Number",-command=>\&queryDB("item_nu
+mber"));
$action->command(-label=>"Sort by Sales",-command=>\&queryDB("tot_sale
+s"));

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The query works perfectly, but the weird thing is that when I'm passing parameters like this, it runs automatically each time I start the application, whether or not I've selected either one of the menu choices! The product list comes back twice, sorted once by dollar sales, and once by product number. If anyone can see what I'm doing wrong, or if you know of a Tk-specific method of passing parameters to a subroutine, I would be most deeply indebted to you.

Thanks very much,
a Tk novice

In reply to Perl/Tk parameters by Anonymous Monk

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