in reply to Win32::GUI bizarre problems??

Experimented with your code, and had the same error.

Playing with it, I found that adding a -name to the label makes the problem go away.

$main->AddLabel( -text => "NOOO!!" , -name => 'Label1', );
Sounds like a bug.
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