Hello monks! I have just recently started learnign how to use Tk and I am already stuck on a problem. I have a listbox that lists the textfile names in the current directory. However I can not seem to figure out how to get the users selection from that list box. Here is what I have so far. 
#!perl -w

use strict;
use Tk;

# Main Window
my $mw = MainWindow->new;

# Frames
my $label3_frame = $mw->Frame;
my $files_frame = $mw->Frame;
my $exit_frame = $mw->Frame;

# File Listing Label
$label3_frame->Label(-text => "Select Files to Track")->pack(-side => 
+'left');

# File Listing Listbox
my @files;
push @files, $_ for <*.txt>;
my $listbox = $files_frame->Scrolled("Listbox",
    -scrollbars => "oe",
    -selectmode => "extended")->pack;
$listbox->insert('end', @files);

# Print Listbox Button
my @filenames;
my @selected_files = $listbox->curselection;
for (@selected_files) {
    my $file = $listbox->get($_);
    push @filenames, $file;
}
$exit_frame->Button(-text => "Files",
    -command => sub { print "@filenames\n"; })->pack;
$exit_frame->Button(-text => "Exit",
    -command => sub { exit; })->pack;

# Pack Frames
$label3_frame->pack(-side => 'top', -fill => 'y');
$files_frame->pack(-side => 'top', -fill => 'y');
$exit_frame->pack(-side => 'top', -fill => 'y');

# Main Loop
MainLoop;

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The @selected_files array is never getting populated with any of the selections. Any help you can offer would be very appreciated. Thanks!

-Prime

In reply to TK Listbox help by PrimeLord

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