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in reply to Re^2: Perl/Tk binding Tab
in thread Perl/Tk binding Tab

Hi, it may help to know that the calling widget is the first argument $_[0] pass to any Tk callback. This code may show you what is happening. Notice how the Entry widget changes with each Tab.
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Tk; my $mw = MainWindow->new(); my $entry1 = $mw->Entry()->pack(); my $entry2 = $mw->Entry()->pack(); my $entry3 = $mw->Entry()->pack(); my %after = ($entry1 => $entry2, $entry2 => $entry1, ); $mw -> bind('all','<Tab>',sub{ print "@_\n"; ($after{$_[0]} // $_[0])->focus; } ); $mw->MainLoop(); exit(0);

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