Dear Monks,

I can run hello.pl as in Tk Tutorial but am having a little trouble with the next step. For instance, I would like to get input from an Entry widget instead of STDIN. I thought this should work but I'm not getting assigned as I expected: 

my $main = MainWindow->new();
$main->Label(-text=>"Company Name:")->pack();
my $entry = $main->Entry()->pack;
$entry->focus();
my $name = $entry->get();
$main->Button(-text=>"Continue", -command=> sub {$main->destroy})->pac
+k();
$main->Button(-text=>"Cancel", -command => sub {exit})->pack();
$main->bind('<Return>' => sub {$main->destroy});
MainLoop;
die "$name";

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$ perl new_invoice.pl Died at new_invoice.pl line 38.

I guess when this works I'll try to make it more attractive with fonts and geometry management, and then maybe continue with the tutorial or "Mastering Perl/Tk".

I would appreciate any guidance. Thanks.

In reply to Tk "hello, world", part 2 by RandomWalk

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