I would bet that Tk can do what you want. Your problem of having single line messages, being clickable, and a callback to display additional data is doable a few ways in Tk. Can you show us some code? If I was going to try an do it, I would print the results to a text widget, and create custom tags for each line printed, and tag that line. Then have a balloon, or mouse enter/clicked bindings on the tags, to display the extra data associated with that line. Here is an example, where you can store "meta-data" for each line, in a tag(or hash), and pop that data up in a balloon when that tagged-line is clicked or enetered. You could also do it with a Canvas, if you wanted to add some graphics.

This example shows just the basics, I print the data to stdout, instead of a balloon or a toplevel extra-info window. Also, I create 100 tags in a simple loop, but in your situation, you will wnat to tagconfigure each tag, for each line, as they come in and are printed.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Tk;

my $mw = tkinit;
my $t = $mw->Scrolled('Text',
              -scrollbars => 'osoe'
               )->pack;

for(1..100){
  $t->tagConfigure( 'data'.$_, -data => $_ x 20,
);
}

for(1..100){

 $t->insert('end', 'Line'."$_\n", ['datarider','data'.$_ ]);
}

$t->tagBind( 'datarider', '<Enter>', sub { getdata($t) } );
$t->tagBind( 'datarider', '<Leave>', sub { getdata($t) } );
$t->bind( '<Motion>', sub{ getdata($t) } );


MainLoop;

sub getdata {
    my ( $text_widget ) = @_;

    my $x = $text_widget->pointerx - $text_widget->rootx;
    my $y = $text_widget->pointery - $text_widget->rooty;
    #print "$x $y\n"; 
    my $txt_index = $text_widget->index( '@' . $x . ',' . $y );
    #warn $txt_index; 
    my ( $line, $char ) = ( $txt_index =~ /^(.+?)\.(.+?)$/ );
    my @tags =  $text_widget->tagNames($txt_index);
    print "@tags\n";

    foreach my $tag(@tags){
       print $text_widget->tagCget($tag,'data'),"\n";
      }

}
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