My suggestion would be to go with the first option that Corion mentioned above: have gnuplot save its image to a file instead of opening its own display window. I gather you've had success already with using something like this:
my $chart = Chart::Gnuplot->new( output => 'test.png', # not "terminal => 'windows'" ...
That way, gnuplot will exit as soon as the file is written, and then you just have to load the file into a new Tk::Toplevel window. I'd be inclined to make the file name different on each "plot" call - e.g. rename "test.png" to some new unique name after calling plot3d, and use the new name to label and load the new Toplevel window, like this:
my $output_id = 0; # put this before the MainLoop call ... sub plot { $chart->plot3d($dataSet); my $newname = sprintf( "test_%03d.png", ++$output_id ); rename( "test.png", $newname ); my $top = $mw->Toplevel( -title => $newname ); my $img = $top->Photo( -file => $newname ); my $lbl => $top->Label( -image => $img )->pack; }
(updated to adjust file name in second paragraph)

In reply to Re^3: Integrating TK and Chart::Gnuplot. by graff
in thread Integrating TK and Chart::Gnuplot. by Ppeoc

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