Fellow monks,

I've run into a wall again with my Tk programming.

Given the following code: 

my $canvas = $frame2 ->Canvas(
                              -bg=>COLOR,
                              -height=>$height,
                              -width=>$width,
                              )->pack();

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I've set $height and $width prior to it ever seeing that, so why does that keep giving me this error:

Arg 5 to `.frame1.canvas' (300) is tainted at C:/Perl/site/lib/Tk/Widget.pm line 196.

If I go in and physically set the canvas dimension, it all works just fine, but I want to have a dynamic canvas - if possible.

Any help would be appreciated!

Edit ar0n -- title change

In reply to Taint error with Tk by Popcorn Dave

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