As far as the "active fill" not working is concerned, it's because you have "-state =>'disabled' in their setup. That makes them essentially 'inactive'. If you are looking for a way to change their colors on "enter and leave", you need to setup a binding on each small rect or tag them.

That brings up a big point you are missing. Tags!! I'm not sure what you are trying to accomplish exactly, but you make no use of tags, and you need to. I like to use hashes instead of arrays, and with that in mind, here is a script which may help you understand things. You have to play around with it a bit, to get the hang of it. I took the group out, since it was just getting in the way. Show us a full working script which uses the group, if you want us to help you with it. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Tk;

my $mw = MainWindow->new();

# first create a canvas widget 
my $c = $mw->Canvas(width => 300, height => 200)->pack();

my $x1 = 10;
my $x2 = 20;
my $parent = $c->createRectangle(10, 20, 100, 60,
                  -fill => 'red',
                  -tags => ['parent'],
                  );

my %children;

for my $i (1..4) {
 $children{$i} =  $c->createRectangle($x1, 20, $x2, 30,
    #-state =>'disabled',  
    -activefill  => 'green',
    -disabledfill => 'white',
    -tags => ['children',$i],
    );

     $x1 += 15; $x2 += 15;
  }



my $ebutton = $mw->Button(-text => 'Exit',
                  -command => 'Tk::exit')->pack();


$c->Tk::bind("<Motion>", \&get_info  );

MainLoop();

sub get_info{
 my $curr_object = $c->find('withtag','current');
   if(defined $curr_object){
     print "curr->",@$curr_object,"\n";  #array dereference 
     my (@list) = $c->gettags($curr_object);
     print "list->@list\n";
    }
}

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In reply to Re: Tk-Canvas Grouping by zentara
in thread Tk-Canvas Grouping by Anonymous Monk

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