What is wrong with this code??? I reading O'Reilly's "Advanced perl Programming". I am trying to learn tk. I copied the program word for word and I get this error when it runs:
unknown option "width" at C:/Perl/site/lib/Tk/Widget.pm line 205. at C:\Documents and Settings\ssherman\Desktop\gui.pl line 20 

#
#
#    GUI TEST PROGRAM
#
#

use Tk;

# --------------------------------------------------------------------
+-----
# Create a main window
# --------------------------------------------------------------------
+-----

$top = MainWindow->new();
$top->title ("Simple");

# --------------------------------------------------------------------
+-----
# Instantiate widgets and arrange them
# --------------------------------------------------------------------
+-----

$l = $top->Label(text  => 'hello',        #label properties
        anchor => 'n',            #anchor test to "north"
        relief => 'groove',        #border style
        width  => '10', height => '3');#10 chars wide, 3 high
    
$l->pack();    # give it a default place within the main window

# --------------------------------------------------------------------
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# Sit in an infinite loop dispathing incoming events.
# --------------------------------------------------------------------
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MainLoop();

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I also have ActiveState perl 5.8
I did try the dash, -width and that worked. I guess my question now is why can Aquarium run the program above with no problems and when I do it does work without the dash

In reply to New to Perl TK by SteveS832001

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