I am attempting to break up a text file into each word so as to then have it displayed within a Tk widget after a time delay. Unfortunately I can't seem to get it to do this using a while loop because it waits until the while loop finishes before it creates the widget. If anyone can help I would really appreciate it (I'm still really new to Perl). 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Tk;

my $mw = new MainWindow;
my $rec1 = $mw->Canvas(-height => "90", 
                       -width  => "500")->pack();

$rec1->createRectangle(1,1,500,90, 
                       -fill => "black");
my $txt_tag = $rec1->createText(250,45,
                                -justify  => "center",
                                -fill     => "yellow",
                                -font     => "times 50",
                                );

open(FILE, "sip.txt");
while ( <FILE> )
{
   push my @lines, [ split ];
   for my $i ( 0 .. $#lines ) 
   {
      for my $j ( 0 .. $#{$lines[$i]} ) 
      {
#        $word = $lines[$i][$j];
            $mw->after(200);
            print "$lines[$i][$j] ";
            $rec1->dchars($txt_tag,0);
            $rec1->insert($txt_tag,0,$lines[$i][$j]);
      }
   }
}

MainLoop;

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