Dear monks, again I come to you for help and guidance. (This site is great! You're always so helpful.) Here's what I'm trying to do: have a Tk::Animation on a canvas. It looked so easy in the pod and on CPAN, but no. All I get is a black canvas. No errors or warnings.

I checked i) if "tree.gif" is there; ii) if it's GIF89; iii) that I put it on a canvas (I tried a label as well). I'm on MSWin32, perl 5.8.4 (ActiveState). 
    my $scr = new MainWindow;
    $scr->configure(-background=>"black");
    $scr->geometry("500x500");
    my $canvas = $scr->Canvas(
        -background=>"black",
        -width=>$scr->width,
        -height=>$scr->height,
        )->pack( -side=>"left" );
    $canvas->Animation('-format' => 'GIF', -file => "tree.gif")->start
+_animation( 20 );

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Now what?

In reply to Tk::Animation won't work :( by rvosa

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