I coded up a quick script to display a computer's name on the screen. It works just as intended on my system running the script from the command line or or double clicking it from explorer after running it through pp. But when I put it on a different machine it doesn't seem to do anything, I suspect it is throwing an error but I just can't see it.

The idea for this script is to have a quick command users here can just type into a windows search box ala "click start, type command, press enter" and have their computer's network name displayed.

If it helps here is the command line I used for pp.
  "C:\Dwimperl\perl\site\bin\pp.bat" --output="C:\Dwimperl\perl\Script
+s\myName.exe" --gui --compress 6 --bundle "C:\Dwimperl\perl\Scripts\m
+yName.pl"

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Anyone have any idea why this won't run as advertised? 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Tk;
use Sys::Hostname;

my $hn = hostname;

my $mw = MainWindow->new();
$mw->overrideredirect(1);
$mw->Label(-text => "You Computer Name is: " . $/ . $hn,
           -font => "Arial 16")->pack;
$mw->focusmodel('active');
Tk::after(10000, sub { $mw->destroy });
MainLoop();

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Sweetblood

In reply to Tk and Par pp missing window on windows 7 by sweetblood

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