Hi Monks,

Can you (zantara;) explain to me why the below code does not work?

use Tk;
my $mw = new MainWindow;
$mw->bind('all' => '<Key-Escape>' => sub {exit;});
# If below line is commented out, program works.
$mw->FullScreen(1);
MainLoop;

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I expect this program to exit when the escape key is pressed, but it does not. No key bindings work in this manner, but if I change it to a mouse binding, say <1> it works.

However if I do this with a window that is not MainWindow, like so:

use Tk;
my $mw = new MainWindow;
my $tl = $mw->Toplevel;
$tl->bind('all' => '<Key-Escape>' => sub {exit;});
$tl->FullScreen(1);
MainLoop;

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it works! .. What gives? Obviously I can work around this, but is it possible to have the key bindings with MW in fullscreen?.. cheers!

In reply to Tk fullscreen mainwindow key bindings by rocklee

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