So i'm trying to make my GUI look better and although i could put into every widget "-background => $color{lbl}[0], -foreground => $color{lbl}[0]" using an hash of arrays i would like to store all these in a hash so that if some have an active fg/bg colors as well it's all the same and alot cleaner, ultimately i could put all options in the hash. Has anybody tried to do this? I keep getting 'odd number of parameters' error. Thanks for the wisdom.

my %colors = (
    but_quit => {
        '-background' => 'red',
        '-foreground' => 'black',
    },
    lbl =>  {
        '-background' => 'tan',
        '-foreground' => 'black',
    },
    ent =>  {
        '-background' => 'white',
        '-foreground' => 'black',
    },
);

$frame->LabEntry(-label=>"IP Address", -labelWidth=>$lblwidth, -labelP
+ack=>[-side=>'left', -anchor=>'w'], -textvariable => \$ServiceSystem,
+ $colors{lbl} )
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PS: i have also tried:

lbl =>  {
        '-background => tan, -foreground => black',
    },
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