To fix your main problem, just change while (<>) to while (<File_Open>) in your Open sub.
The <> is a "null filehandle" (see "I/O Operators" in perlop), which would cause your program to seem to hang because it was waiting (silently) for keyboard input from the DOS window.

Incidentally, 'Ctl+O' should be 'Ctrl+O', and you need to add this line to make the accelerator work:

$main->bind("<Control-o>", \&Open);

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Also, here are some improvements to your Open sub; clearer names, tightened variable scope, and correctly handling the user <cancel>ing out of the Open dialog box: 

sub Open {
    my $csv_path = $main->getOpenFile( -filetypes => [
        [ 'CSV files', '.csv' ],
        [ 'All Files', '*'    ],
    ] );
    return if not defined $csv_path;

    open my $csv_fh, '<', $csv_path
      or die "Cannot open '$csv_path': $!";

    my $out_fh;
    my $last_filename = '';
    while (<$csv_fh>) {
        my ($f) = /^([^,]+),/;
        my $filename = "$f.txt";
        if ( $filename ne $last_filename ) {
            open $out_fh, '>', $filename
              or die "cannot open $filename: $!";
        }
        print {$out_fh} $_;
        $last_filename = $filename;
    }
}

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In reply to Re: GetOpenFile (Perl::TK 804.028) on v.5.10.0 by Util
in thread GetOpenFile (Perl::TK 804.028) on v.5.10.0 by Knoperl

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