As BUU said, hash keys are only strings; you can't get the reference back out of them. That said, why not use an array of the objects and their argument list? 
my @data = (
  [ $frame1 => {-text => $hello_string, width => 7}  ],
  [ $frame2 => {-text => $silly_string, width => 9}  ], 
  [ $frame3 => {-text => "XXXXX",       width => 35} ],
  [ $frame4 => {-text => $silly_string, width => 7}  ],
);

for my $set (@data) {
  my ($frame, $settings) = @$set;
  $frame->Label(
    %$settings,    # I'm pretty sure you want %$settings
    -expand => 1,  # not just $settings...
  )->pack();

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In reply to Re: Iterating over objects by japhy
in thread Iterating over objects by Anonymous Monk

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