I have a program that has many Tk::Entry widgets on it. All of them require a value between 0.0 and 100.0.
I am validating the entries on 'focusout', and if the contents pass, I'm saving the value in a hash.
What I would like to be able to do is use the same validation routine for all of the entries. I'm having trouble figuring out how to save the value, though.
My version of perl is 5.6.1 built for sun4-solaris. I see in "Mastering Perl/Tk" that I should be able to call "$widget->focusLast" to find which entry just lost focus, but it's not in my Widget.pm.
Is there a way to send additional arguments to the Entry callback, beyond the 5 listed in Mastering Perl/Tk page 126?
Thanks.

In reply to Generic Entry widget validation by sfinster

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