This worked for me!

All of my canvas objects have an inherant unique ID because they are the physical representation of a whole bunch of stuff in a database. As a result, they all have a tag that contains their ID prefixed with "C_" (e.g., "C_38472").

As a result, the code below does it all for me. I can see what is directly under the cursor when this code runs.

    my $mainitemid
    my @CurTags = canvas->gettags('current');
    for my $tag (@CurTags)
    {
        my $itag = ($tag =~ "C_");
        print "$tag,  $itag\n";
        if ($tag =~ "C_")
        {
            $mainitemid = substr($tag, 2);
        }
    }

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By reassembling C_$ID I can get a tag that I can use to act upon that object.

Thanks for your help,
Perldough

In reply to Re^2: Determine canvas object under click (Tk) by perldough
in thread Determine canvas object under click (Tk) by perldough

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