I want to give the user a message in a failure condition.
The Tk DialogBox widget seems fine since you can ‘add’ what elements you want
and the resulting dialog is in ‘control’ until the user selects the Ok button
Adding a label is fine with the following code
    $mw_text->add('Label', -text => $label_str)->pack;

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I want to display a list in the dialog that varies in length. I thought I would
create this list in a variable with a line feed after each item as shown next
foreach $text_item (@$ref_text_array) {
    chomp($text_item);
    $text_str .= $text_item . "\n";
}

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I want to show the list in a text box of the dialog box. I tried the following
    $mw_text->add('Text',
            -scrollbars => "e",
            -width => 80,
            -height => 35,
            -text   => $text_str
            )->pack();

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However this failed.
It did not like –scrollbars (but I wanted them in case the list got too long)
It did not like –text (and –textvariable)
I have tried to find suitable examples on the internet but this failed!
What should I do?

In reply to Adding 'text' to a Tk DialogBox by merrymonk

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