Zentara, you are my hero.  I still don't understand why they wrote the
documentation the way they did, but that was the missing link I was looking
for.

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From: zentara
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 4/7/02 10:54 AM
Subject: Re: Calling all tk users

On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 16:59:00 -0800 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy
Johnson)
wrote:

>
>Hey, is there anybody out there than can give me a really short example
of
>retrieving text from an Entry box?  I see in the documentation that you
use
>the $entry-gtget, but there aren't any syntax examples.
>
>What I have so far:
>
>use tk;
>my $main = MainWindow->new();
>$main->minsize(100,100);
>$main->configure( -background => 'white' );
>my $frame = $main->Frame()->pack( -fill => 'both' );
>my $entry = $frame->Entry()->pack( -side => 'left' );
>$entry->insert(0,'Default Text');
>
>???
>
>Drawing a window isn't very useful if I can't get information back from
it.
>

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Tk;
$mw=tkinit;
$t=$mw->Text->pack;
$t->insert('end',"This is some\ntext to retrieve");
$mw->Button(-text=>'Print Text',
 -command=>sub{
  print $t->get('1.0','end'),"\n"}
   )->pack(-fill=>'x');
   MainLoop;




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