I am trying to enable a specific number of optionmenus based on an entry variable.

Hi. First off, always try to make a complete working example, so we don't have to flesh out your code to test it ourselves.

I'm not sure if you want 3 Optionmenus, with only 1 active, OR you want a single Optionmenu, in which you can change it's options dynamically based on the Entry callback. You might look at Setting options in Tk::Optionmenu without the callback?

I don't know if you are aware of it, but the Optionmenu widget's "options" array setting can be dynamically changed. A simple example:

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

my $mw = MainWindow->new();

my @opt1 = ('a'..'m');
my @opt2 = ('n'.. 'z');
my $var = 'a';
my $tvar = 'a';

my $opt = $mw->Optionmenu(
                          -command => \&show_choice,
                          -variable => \$var,
                          -textvariable => \$tvar,
                          -options => \@opt1,
                         )->pack;


$mw->Button(-text=>'Change Options',-command=>[\&change_ops, $opt])->p
+ack;

$mw->Button(-text=>'Exit', -command=>sub{$mw->destroy})->pack;

MainLoop;

sub show_choice
{
    print "got: ", shift, "\n"
}

sub change_ops
{
    my $op = shift;
    $tvar = 'n';
    $op->configure( -options => \@opt2 );
}
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If you really want to have a bunch of disabled Optionmenus laying around, it's your choice, but post a more complete example.

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