Dearest Monks,
Can anyone help me with this simple little app I wrote to grab and display web cam images off of a local server. The problem is that it keeps eating up memory with each update. I know im missing something simple to release the memory but I cannot seem to find it. Please help ! On a side note does anyone know how I can make the image scale in size along with the form ?
Thank you very much !! 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Tk;
use Tk::JPEG;
use LWP::Simple;
use MIME::Base64;


my $UPDATE_INTERVAL = 10;
my $CAM_URL         = "http://192.168.0.25";
my $CAM_TITLE       = "Cam - North View";

my $mw = MainWindow->new;

$mw->title($CAM_TITLE);

my $buttonImage = $mw->Photo( -format => 'jpeg' );

my $TT = $mw->Button(-image => $buttonImage)->pack;

$mw->after( $UPDATE_INTERVAL,[\&update_image]);

MainLoop;

sub update_image {

    my $data = encode_base64( get($CAM_URL) );
    
    $buttonImage = $mw->Photo(-data => $data, -format => 'jpeg');

    $TT->configure(-image => $buttonImage);

    $mw->after( $UPDATE_INTERVAL,[\&update_image]);
    
};

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