Good Monks, I can't help thinking that the solution to this problem must be well known but while I've studied the Perl/Tk book and searched the Web I can't get this working. I'm writing a program with Perl/Tk where the relevant bits are like this: 
my $mw = MainWindow->new();
$mw->protocol(WM_DELETE_WINDOW=>\&exitfile);
my $menuframe = $mw->Frame(-bd=>4, -relief=>'groove')->pack(-side=>'to
+p', -fill=>'x', -expand=>'x');<br>
my $canvasframe = $mw->Frame(-bd=>4, -relief=>'groove')->pack(-side=>'
+bottom', -fill=>'both', -expand=>'both');

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... 
my $canvas1 = $canvasframe->Scrolled('Canvas', -width=>'20i', -height=
+>'10i', -background=>$papercolour)->pack(-fill=>'both', -expand=>'bot
+h');

$canvasframe->focus;

$mw->bind($keypress=>\&$action);

MainLoop;

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where the keypresses and actions are read from a file (you can view the whole source of the main module at http://sandyfleming.org/swposter_0_3.txt if you want). This works excellently for all keys except the Tab key. Pressing the tab key causes the focus to change so that from then on keys such as the arrow keys move the canvas about instead of doing the action I've bound to them. What am I doing wrong?

In reply to Tab Key in Perl/Tk by Juthware

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