I am really confused by this. I need an interface with some fields read only (labels) and some editable (data). I cannot seem to prevent editablity. I have tried two things that I think should work, this: 

 
$Cell[1] = {
                CellType        => "ROText",
                Row             => 0,
                Col             => 0,
                Contents        => "Bank\\Branch\\Dept:"
                };
$Cell[2] = {
                CellType        => "ROText",
                Row             => 1,
                Col             => 0,
                Contents        => "Requestor:"
                };

foreach (1 .. $#Cell) {
        if (${$Cell[$_]}{'CellType'} == "Text") {
                $cell = $grid->Text(
                                -width          => 17,
                                -height         => 1,
                                )->grid(
                                -row => ${$Cell[$_]}{'Row'},
                                -sticky => "nsew",
                                -column => ${$Cell[$_]}{'Col'},
                                );
        } elsif (${$Cell[$_]}{'CellType'} == "ROText") {
        $cell = $grid->ROText(
                        -width          => 17,
                        -height         => 1,
                        )->grid(
                        -row => ${$Cell[$_]}{'Row'},
                        -sticky => "nsew",
                        -column => ${$Cell[$_]}{'Col'},
                        );
                };
        $cell->Contents("${$Cell[$_]}{'Contents'}");
};

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And this: 

foreach (1 .. $#Cell) {
        if (${$Cell[$_]}{'CellType'} == "Text") {
                $cell = $grid->Text(
                                -width          => 17,
                                -height         => 1,
                                -state          =>'normal',
                                )->grid(
                                -row => ${$Cell[$_]}{'Row'},
                                -column => ${$Cell[$_]}{'Col'},
                                );
        } elsif (${$Cell[$_]}{'CellType'} == "ROText") {
                $cell = $grid->Text(
                                -width          => 17,
                                -height         => 1,
                                -state          =>'disabled',
                                )->grid(
                                -row => ${$Cell[$_]}{'Row'},
                                -column => ${$Cell[$_]}{'Col'},
                                );
                };
        $cell->Contents("${$Cell[$_]}{'Contents'}");
};

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Both of these result in fields that can be clicked on and edited.

What am I doing wrong?

Skip

In reply to Read Only fields from Tk, neither Text or ROText seem to work. by SkipHuffman

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