The module

package BMORROW::Tie::TkWatch;

use warnings;
use strict;

our @EXPORT_OK = qw/Run Dialog Update/;
use base qw/Exporter/;

use Tk;
use Tk::Dialog;
use Scalar::Util qw/openhandle/;

my %TK;

$TK{mw} = Tk::MainWindow->new(
    -title => 'Perl',
);
$TK{font} = $TK{mw}->Font(
    -family => 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono',
    -size   => 10,
);
$TK{out} = $TK{mw}->Scrolled(
    ROText =>
    -font       => $TK{font},
    -width      => 80,
    -height     => 35,
    -scrollbars => 'osoe',
)->pack(
    -fill   => 'both',
    -expand => 'y',
);

$TK{out}->tag(configure => out => -foreground => 'black');
$TK{out}->tag(configure => err => -foreground => 'red');
$TK{out}->focus;

sub TIEHANDLE {
    my $c = shift;
    return bless \@_, $c;
}

sub PRINT {
    my $s = shift;
    my ($o, $t, $h) = @$s;

    my $txt = do {
        no warnings 'uninitialized';
        (join $,, @_) . $\
    };
    openhandle $h and print $h $txt;
    $o->insert(end => $txt, $t);
    $o->see('end');
    $o->update;
}

tie *STDOUT, __PACKAGE__, $TK{out}, 'out';
open my $OERR, '>&', \*STDERR;
tie *STDERR, __PACKAGE__, $TK{out}, 'err', $OERR;

sub Run (&$) {
    my $sub = shift;
    $TK{mw}->configure(-title => shift);
    $TK{mw}->after(0, $sub);
    Tk::MainLoop;
}

sub Dialog {
    my $ans = $TK{mw}->Dialog(@_)->Show();
    $TK{mw}->update;
    return $ans;
}

sub Update {
    $TK{mw}->update;
}

sub Tk::Error {
    my ($mw, $err) = @_;
    print STDERR $err;
}

1;

__END__

=head1 AUTHOR, WARRANTY, COPYRIGHT, & LICENCE INFO

Copyright 2007 Ben Morrow

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.5
or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have
available.

=cut
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Usage

#!/usr/bin/perl

use BMORROW::Tie::TkWatch qw/Run/;

Run {
    print "Hello world!\n";
    warn "Houston, we have a problem";
} 'My Perl App';

__END__
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More Info

This was recently posted on clpmisc by Ben Morrow. (Available from Google Groups too.) I asked for permission to reproduce it here and he agreed. I only added the copyright notice as per the author's request. See the original thread linked above for more info.

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