Thanks Michel

can TKEntry invoke a defined procedure to grab that input when the user
is done typing?

Also, I tried this:
@myVar = TkVariable.new
@entry1.textvariable(@myVar)
@myEntry = @myVar.value

and it gave an undefined method error on entry1.textvariable(@myVar)

any ideas?

Joe

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