Here is a snippet I use as an example, posted long ago by some Tk programmer better than me at mega-widgets :-) I also would look at the pod for Tk::Derived for insight into mega-widgets and passing params. The big problem is how to get around the super widget rejecting params it dosn't handle. And check out Custom Widgets by Steven Lidie 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
package Tk::MyMega;

use base qw/Tk::Frame/;
use strict;

Construct Tk::Widget 'MyMega';

sub Populate {
  my($self, $args) = @_;
  $self->SUPER::Populate($args);
  $self->{entry1} = $self->Entry->pack;
  $self->{entry2} = $self->Entry->pack;

  $self->ConfigSpecs(
    -variable1   => [qw/PASSIVE  variable1   Variable1/, undef ],
    -variable2   => [qw/PASSIVE  variable2   Variable2/, undef ],
  );
} # end Populate 

# an alternative  
#sub Populate { 
#  my($self, $args) = @_; 
# 
#  $self->SUPER::Populate($args); 
# 
#  my $e1 = $self->Component(Entry => 'entry1')->pack; 
#  my $e2 = $self->Component(Entry => 'entry2')->pack; 
# 
#  $self->ConfigSpecs( 
#    -variable1 => [{-textvariable => $e1}, qw/variable1 Variable1/], 
#    -variable2 => [{-textvariable => $e2}, qw/variable2 Variable2/] 
#); 
#} 

sub ConfigChanged {

  my( $self, $args ) = @_;

   foreach my $k (keys %$args) {
     if( my( $n ) = $k =~ /^-variable(\d+)$/ ) {
      $self->{"entry${n}"}->configure( -textvariable => $args->{$k} );
      }
    }

} # end ConfigChanged 

package main;

use Tk;
#use Tk::MyMega; 
use strict;

my $mw = MainWindow->new;
my $frog = 1;
my $toad = 2;
my $mm = $mw->MyMega(
-background => 'white',
-foreground => 'blue',
-variable1  => \$frog,
-variable2  => \$toad,
)->pack;

$mw->update;
$mw->after( 2000, sub{ $frog++; $toad++ } );

MainLoop;

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In reply to Re: TK Mega Widget and User Edit by zentara
in thread TK Mega Widget and User Edit by PerlingTheUK

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