I am trying to create a Perl program (Perl Tk GUI) that runs different scripts based on what users choose out of a menu at the top. The scripts output text progress and feedback based on records that the script processed into a Scrolled widget/element. I want to be able to forget/destroy/delete the widget when I move to a new option in the menu so I can create a fresh one to output text from the next script the user will run.

my $mainFrame = $mw->Frame()->pack(-side=>'top');

my $tx = $mainFrame->Scrolled(qw/Text 
    -font normal
        -width 73
    -height 15
    -wrap word 
    -scrollbars e/);
$tx->pack;

tie *STDOUT, 'Tk::Text', $tx;

#script is called, runs, outputs to Scrolled above, user chooses new o
+ption and sub clear() is called:

sub clear{
      $mainFrame ->destroy();
      $tx ->pack('forget'); 
}

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I want the $tx widget to disappear/clear off the screen

I have tried multiple things like forget, destroy, delete and anything else I could find on this site and around the interwebs. Some of them don't throw errors at all, but when I go to run a different script, the Scrolled widget/element will not clear from the screen so the new one shows up below the old one. I am relatively new to Perl GUI programming (this is my first GUI with Perl and I am trying to learn it as I go) so go easy on me

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In reply to Perl Tk Forgetting a Widget by amdme127

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