Here's an interesting one... I had configured a Tk Entry widget such that its -textvariable was reference to a value in a hash. Of course that worked fine, both as input and as readout. But then sometime later I tied the hash with IxHash. Once its hash had been tied the Tk Entry widget only ever worked one way, as input from the GUI side, not at all as a readout. The hash itself was not troubled at all.

By this I mean that any change made to the Entry box produced expected changes in the tied hash. But no change to the value of that key in the tied hash ever had effect on the readout in the Tk Entry widget.

The wisdom I seek is whether this be a bug or a feature?

In reply to Tk Entry and IxHash by aplonis

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