Short answer

Well, it "works" if you change line 29 to

Long answer

What's happening is that you bind the references in BuildMenu()

before initializing the values. (autovivification helps here)

But with

are you overwriting the old hash including its bound element thing1 inside, with a new hash and a different thing1 ...

I'd rather change that timing.

NB: checkbutton will toggle between 0 and 1 - those 3 and 7 are considered false like 0.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

In reply to Re: menu checkbutton is not modifying variable by LanX
in thread menu checkbutton is not modifying variable by CrashBlossom

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