Hello monks,
I'm having a very strange problem with Win32::GUI. First off, I'm new to using this package. I found a tutorial online for Win32::GUI and have been trying to use the following to test and play around with:
use Win32::GUI;

$main = Win32::GUI::Window->new(
    -name    =>    'Main',
    -text    =>    'Swg_checkit',
    -height    =>    300,
    -width    =>    400,
);

$main->AddLabel(
    -text    =>    "NOOO!!"
);

$main->Show();
Win32::GUI::Dialog();

sub Main_Terminate {
    -1;
}

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Upon execution I get a windows (running xp) error saying an error has occurred in the perl command line interpretor. This code does work fine if I remove the 
$main->AddLabel(
    -text    =>    "NOOO!!"
);

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I tried this originally using active perl 5.6.x and using ppm to install Win32::GUI, then got the error, tried 5.8.x, installed Win32::GUI with ppm again, still error, tried installing on housemate's computer, still error. Is there a known problem with Win32::GUI and using the AddLabel method? Is there another method that can be used to accomplisht he same thing that won't give an error?

thanks for any help and advice.

Alan

In reply to Win32::GUI bizarre problems?? by alpal

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