Greetings, 16.12.2003, R. Joseph Newton wrote:
> There is no decoding happening. Entry is a Tk widget. It is not a > string. The string contents are a property held in the widget's hash. > The get method is an accessor function that returns this value. AFAIK, Tk > does not use the sort of default properties that you might find in VB, > where you can assign a Text widget to a string, and the string gets the > value of that widgets text. Since Perl stores its references at least > partly as strings, you get the reference string when you assign or use a > widget referencxe in string context. Ah, I can see the light (Faintly. At the other side of the tunnel. Wait, don't run!). Maybe I should use modules more often. Thanks a bunch! :) Best regards, oliver. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>