I can confirm the bug. It sometimes manifests even with just 2 existing styles. Adding a MainLoop also shows that the styles are overwriting each other, i.e. the items have wrong colours.

A full example rewritten to use strict to rule out typos in variable names, plus shortened according to the DRY principle.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

use Tk;
use Tk::ItemStyle;
use Tk::TList;

my $mw = Tk::MainWindow->new();
my $tl = $mw->TList->pack;

my %TkStyle;
my %count;

for my $color (qw( Black Red Green Blue )) {
    $TkStyle{$color} = $mw->ItemStyle('text',
                                      -stylename        => $color,
                                      -foreground       => $color,
                                      -background       => 'Wheat',
                                      -selectforeground => 'LightSeaGr
+een');
    $tl->insert('end', -itemtype => 'text',
                       -text     => $color,
                       -style    => $TkStyle{$color});
    ++$count{ $TkStyle{$color} };
}

for my $colour (keys %TkStyle ) {
    my $style = $TkStyle{$colour};
    printf("%10s has count %d (style=$style)\n", $colour, $count{$styl
+e});
}

MainLoop();

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Update: The large Tk application I maintain at work uses ItemStyle, but I've never encountered the bug. I checked the code and it seems the only difference is our application doesn't set the -stylename: And indeed, after commenting out the -stylename line, the hashes are always unique!

Update 2: Reported.

map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]

In reply to Re: ItemStyle not returning a unique hash (Updated) by choroba
in thread ItemStyle not returning a unique hash by andy4321

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