Re: Tk Entry not updating when textvariable changes

On a hunch, I tried

my $entry = $mw->Entry(-textvariable => \$text)->pack();
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And it worked.

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Re^2: Tk Entry not updating when textvariable changes by smithbr (Initiate) on Aug 21, 2009 at 20:24 UTC
grrr, that was it, thanks! In my actual code, about half of my entry textvariables are using references and half aren't (because I was cutting-and-pasting chunks basically). Of course, the ones I was just now testing were NOT references and the ones that are references aren't in something I expect to update, so I wasn't seeing anything update. I then just grabbed the chunk of code without the references and tried it stand-alone and didn't see/think to make the textvariables point to references so I assumed I was doing something really dumb..... Which I was :)	[reply]

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Re^2: Tk Entry not updating when textvariable changes
by smithbr (Initiate) on Aug 21, 2009 at 20:24 UTC

grrr, that was it, thanks!

In my actual code, about half of my entry textvariables are using references and half aren't (because I was cutting-and-pasting chunks basically). Of course, the ones I was just now testing were NOT references and the ones that are references aren't in something I expect to update, so I wasn't seeing anything update.

I then just grabbed the chunk of code without the references and tried it stand-alone and didn't see/think to make the textvariables point to references so I assumed I was doing something really dumb..... Which I was :)

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