I have some problem(s) with my curses::widgets script. I have maked a textfield and that was pritty easy but I want to read the value from that textfield. I don't know if I'm to locked up in the problem to see the solution, therefor I seek other knowledge to help me out. According to the manual I should get that value with "getField('VALUE')" but I'm maybe out of line, because it still isnt working and I've tried other methods too.

This is how I thought it should be: 

use Curses;
use Curses::Widgets;
use Curses::Widgets::TextField;
# Initialise the environment
$mwh = new Curses;
noecho();
halfdelay(5);
$mwh->keypad(0);
 curs_set(0);

 $tf = Curses::Widgets::TextField->new({
    CAPTION     => 'login',
    CAPTIONCOL  => 'yellow',
    COLUMNS     => 10,
    MAXLENGTH   => 255,
    #MASK        => undef,
    VALUE       => '',
    INPUTFUNC   => \&scankey,
    FOREGROUND  => 'black',
    BACKGROUND  => 'green',
    BORDER      => 1,
    BORDERCOL   => 'red',
    FOCUSSWITCH => "\t\n",
    CURSORPOS   => 0,
    TEXTSTART   => 0,
    PASSWORD    => 0,
    X           => 1,
    Y           => 1,
    READONLY    => 0,
      });
$tf->draw($mwh, 0);
$tf->execute($mwh);
$login = $tf->getField('VALUE');

{

END {
  endwin();
}
exit 0;

sub login {
if ($login = ~ /test\b/) {
                         # Do something
}
}

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Any sugestions would be very helpfull because I'm stuck and as you can see I'm quite new into perl programming.
Thank you for your time reading it.

edited by ybiC: Replace <pre> tags with <code>, as per Monastery convention

Title edit by tye

In reply to curses::widgets problem by Warfy

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