The problem is that:

$field_id = $listb$listb_index -> curselection();

only returns a value if it is retrieving a value from the last listbox created. Otherwise, it will return a value "". I have been looking at the documentation for listbox from: http://search.cpan.org/~srezic/Tk-804.030/pod/Listbox.pod . But I don't know why my script can't retrieve the values from the first created listbox.

UPDATE: I did a check to see if the previous listboxes existed by just doing a get(0). They all print out dog as expected.

So the problem is why doesn't curselection not work on the old listboxes and only the most recently "added" listbox?

In reply to Re^2: perltk: error getting values from dynamically generated combo boxes by ruhroh
in thread perltk: error getting values from dynamically generated combo boxes by ruhroh

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