Hi Monks,

for a little photo-sort-application, which i'm working on, i need to find out the filename of an selected image. The selection is done by left-mouse-click on the displayed photo (i took one from here). Here an fully functional excerpt

#!/perl

# based on Steven Lidie's "Canvas Item Demonstration" (widget-Demo)

use strict;
use warnings;

use Tk;
use Data::Dumper;

sub items_drag { #----------------------------------------------------

    use Data::Dumper;

    my($c, $x, $y, $iinfo) = @_;
    
    $x = $c->canvasx($x);
    $y = $c->canvasy($y);

    my $af = $c->itemcget('current', -image);
    print "\$af: $af\n";
    print Data::Dumper->Dump([$af], [qw(af *ary)]);

} 


my %iinfo = ();        # item information hash
$iinfo{areaX1} = 0;
$iinfo{areaY1} = 0;
$iinfo{areaX2} = 0;
$iinfo{areaY2} = 0;
$iinfo{restore_cmd} = '';

my $top = MainWindow->new();
my $c = $top->Canvas('-width' => 300, -height => 245)->pack();
$c->createImage("2c", "2c", -image => $top->Photo(-file => "monk2sm.gi
+f"));

$c->CanvasBind('<1>' =>
   sub {items_drag shift, $Tk::event->x, $Tk::event->y, \%iinfo});

MainLoop;
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On mouse-click the items-drag-subroutine tells me that $af is an reference on an anonymous hash with confession Tk::Photo, ...

# aperl canvas.pl
$af: Tk::Photo=HASH(0x19f4fbc)
$af = bless( {}, 'Tk::Photo' );
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...but that's all. I assumed that Data::Dumper would show me a nice nested datastructure which contains the filename amongst other attributes.

Can anybody show me how to retrieve the desired attribute-value or perhaps show me my logical flaw.

greetings, tos

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