Hi monks! I'm playing about with an option menu in tk. It is a simple menu, where you select a month name (January, Feburary etc) and the number of the month is displayed (01,02 etc). That bit's ok. What I'd like to do is set the option menu to default to the current month. I can get the variable to default to a value, but I can't seem to get the option menu itself to change. Any ideas? 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use Tk;
use Strict;
$mw = MainWindow->new(-title=>"Option Menu");

my $month;
#$month='August';    #None of these seem to work
$month='08';
#$month=8;

my $start_month_field=$mw->Optionmenu( -variable => \$month)->pack;

$start_month_field->addOptions([January=>'01'],[Feburary=>'02'],[March
+=>'03'],[April=>'04'],[May=>'05'],[June=>'06'],
        [July=>'07'],[August=>'08'],[September=>'09'],[October=>'10'],
+[November=>'11'],[December=>'12']);

my $label=>$mw->Label(-textvariable=>\$month)->pack();

MainLoop();

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Thanks

In reply to Tk Optionmenu default value by Anonymous Monk

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