Hi Aboveyou,

(Not to be confused with "high aboveyou" :-))

If you want to do this dynamically, so that it will work even after the button's text has changed, you can either use the -textvar option suggested above, or you can construct the button in two steps.

For example, the first step would be something like:

        my $button = $mw->Button(-text => $label);
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and in the second step, a subroutine (which takes the button name as an argument) is configured as the command invoked when the button is pressed:

    $button->configure(-command => [ \&show_button_label, $button ]);

    -or-

    $button->configure(-command => sub { show_button_label($button) })
+;
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Obviously you can't do this in one step, as $button isn't defined until you have the return value from $mw->Button, and you need to pass $button to the subroutine.

Here's a full example:

#!/usr/bin/perl

# Libraries
use strict;
use warnings;
use Tk;

# User-defined
my @button_labels = (qw(
    Red Blue Green White Yellow Orange
));

# Main program
my $mw = new MainWindow();
foreach my $label (@button_labels) {
    # Note labels are colors, so they can be used for the background
    my $button = $mw->Button(-text => $label, -bg => $label);
    $button->configure(-command => [ \&show_button_label, $button ]);
    $button->pack(-side => "left");
}
MainLoop();


# Subroutines
sub show_button_label {
    my ($button) = @_;
    my $label = $button->cget(-text);
    print "Label for button '$button' is '$label'\n";
}
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