Funny business with Perl/Tk 804.027-4, Entry and Optionmenu widgets.

Some comments on Perl/Tk 804.027-4, recently installed from Debian 
unstable.

This version broke my code (which worked perfectly with Perl/Tk 800  - 
Debian Sarge package) in three places.

Using Perl/Tk 800.027, the Entry widget caused me problems:

1. The insert/delete mode byte passed to the '-validatecommand => key' 
callback is '8' resp. '7'. The docs claim it should be 1 resp. 0. The 
obvious work-around is to test for 1|8 resp. 0|7.

2. My key validation callback changes keystrokes to upper case as the 
user types them. It does this through the 'textvariable'. This used 
to work well. Under 800.027, it works...but only for the the first 
time. The 'validate' callback is silently disabled once modification 
of the entry string through the textvariable (or through 
$entry->insert) has taken place. The docs make no mention of this.

My work-around is to insert 
  $entryWidget->configure( -validate => key); 
...at the end of the callback code.

3. Strange behaviour was observed with the Optionmenu widget. Once 
options had been added to this menu, I used to be able to pre-set a 
default option from my code through the assigned textvariable. 
However, the Perl/Tk 800.027 interpreter quietly ignores the 
textvariable. As a result, the widget defaults to the last option 
added. Interestingly, the fix was to bring the -textvariable 
definition out to it's own separate statement:

 $sbOptionmenu->configure( -textvariable => \$txtVar );

I am not sure whether these things are bugs, undocumented features or 
a result of dodgy coding (by me :-)

Also, I hope this is the right forum...it may be a Tk problem or a 
Debian package hiccup.

Wilbert.
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