Hey Monks!

So I'm creating the AboutDialog for my GUI and I'm doing the "set_website" portion and trying to make the URL I enter actually do something when you click on it. I read that you do the set_url_hook() part before you run the set_website() method/function.

So I was having trouble just getting Perl to open a Browser and go to a URL, but I figured out how to do that part by using the Perl Module use Browser::Open qw( open_browser ); which seems to work pretty well. I then tried the code below and now, when I open the AboutDialog box, it instantly opens whatever URL I put in the "open_browser()" function from that Module without clicking on the link.

# Create a MessageDialog to display the "About" Info in:
my $about_window = Gtk2::AboutDialog->new;
    $about_window->set_program_name("Program-Name");
    $about_window->set_version('v1.0');
    $about_window->set_copyright('August 2013');
    $about_window->set_comments("This is the Comment String");
    # Using Google.com just as an example:
    my $url = "http://www.google.com";
    $about_window->set_url_hook(open_browser($url));
    $about_window->set_website($url);
    $about_window->set_authors("....author_data....");
    my $about_img = "$icon_DIR/Icon_Logo.png";
    my $about_pixbuf = Gtk2::Gdk::Pixbuf->new_from_file($about_img);
    $about_window->set_logo($about_pixbuf);

    # Add the Hide action to the 'Close' button in the AboutDialog():
    $about_window->signal_connect('response' => sub { $about_window->h
+ide; });
    $about_window->show;
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So from what's going on here I would assume that whatever you put inside the "set_url_hook()" function gets executed immediately upon creation of the AboutDialog. I did see a SIGNAL available for the AboutDialog that's called "activate-link" but I couldn't connect it with "signal_connect" function...

Does anyone know what I'm missing here? I would assume there is something that I need to add to this to get it working?


UPDATE:
I've also noticed this... So I click the MenuItem to open the AboutDialog, and like I mentioned before, the set_url_hook() gets executed immediately without having to click the link. So I close the page that opened and go back to the About Window and click on the Link itself. When that happens I can see this error below being printed to the terminal.

Undefined subroutine &main::0 called at
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And the line that the error references to is the line that has Gtk2->main; on it... So I tried putting a test sub in the set_url_hook() and I get the same error and whatever the Sub returns is what Perl is saying is a Undefined Subroutine.
So if my function returns "Hello", the Error would be:

Undefined subroutine &main::Hello called at
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So I just thought I should mention that since I'm tinkering with it a bit...

Thanks in Advance,
Matt

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