Monks I am again here hoping you can help me in my pursuit to learn Tk. I am creating a small program to create reports from various text files. The application first gives 3 different output types, then 2 different report types, and finally has a listbox of all the txt files in the directory. I am trying to pass all of this informatrion into a subroutine where I can start tracking the file changes. To test this I am just trying to get the value of the output, report_type, and listbox into the sub routine. The listbox valuse are fine, but the output type and report type is not changign with the radio buttons when I pass them. However outside of the subroutine the values do change with the radio buttons. Any suggestions on how to fix this? Here is the code. 

use strict;
use Tk;

# Defaults
my $version = "change_tracker 0.5 beta";
my $output = "HTML";
my $report_type = "SHORT";

# Main Window
my $mw = MainWindow->new;
$mw->title("$version");

# Frames
my $label1_frame = $mw->Frame;
my $outputlist_frame = $mw->Frame;
my $label2_frame = $mw->Frame;
my $typelist_frame = $mw->Frame;
my $label3_frame = $mw->Frame;
my $files_frame = $mw->Frame;
my $exit_frame = $mw->Frame;

# Output Lablel
$label1_frame->Label(-text => "Type of Output")->pack;

# Output List
for ("HTML", "CSV", "TEXT") {
        $outputlist_frame->Radiobutton(-text => $_,
                -value => $_,
                -variable => \$output)->pack(-side => 'left');
}

# Report Type Label
$label2_frame->Label(-text => "Report Type")->pack;

# Report Type List
for ("SHORT", "LONG") {
        $typelist_frame->Radiobutton(-text => $_,
                -value => $_,
                -variable => \$report_type)->pack(-side => 'left');
}

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

# File Listing Listbox
my @files;
opendir DIR, "." or die "$!";
@files = sort grep /\.txt$/, readdir DIR;
closedir DIR;
my $listbox = $files_frame->Scrolled("Listbox",
        -scrollbars => "oe",
        -selectmode => "extended")->pack;
$listbox->insert('end', @files);


# Track Changes
$exit_frame->Button(-text => "Track",
        -command => [ \&track_changes, ($listbox, $output, $report_typ
+e) ])->pack;

# Exit Button
$exit_frame->Button(-text => "Exit",
        -command => sub { exit; })->pack;

# Pack Frames
$label1_frame->pack(-side => 'top', -fill => 'y');
$outputlist_frame->pack(-side => 'top', -fill => 'y');
$label2_frame->pack(-side => 'top', -fill => 'y');
$typelist_frame->pack(-side => 'top', -fill => 'y');
$label3_frame->pack(-side => 'top', -fill => 'y');
$files_frame->pack(-side => 'top', -fill => 'y');
$exit_frame->pack(-side => 'top', -fill => 'y');


# Main Loop
MainLoop;

sub track_changes {
    my ($listbox, $output, $report_type) = @_;
    my @files = $listbox->curselection;
    for (@files) {
        my $file = $listbox->get($_);
        print "$file\n";
    }
    print "$output\n";
    print "$report_type\n";
}

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Any help you can offer would be very appreciated. Thanks!

-Prime

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