You may just need getOpenFile() which will autoload with use Tk; See below for an example: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

use Tk;
my $current_file=();

our $mw = MainWindow->new;
$mw->configure(-title=> "some title");
$mw->geometry("1000x400+0+0");

my $menu_f = $mw->Frame()->pack(-side=>'top',-fill=>'x');
my $menu_file = $menu_f->Menubutton
                    (-text=>'File',-tearoff=>'false')
                    ->pack(-side=>'left');
$menu_file->command(-label=>'Open',
            -command=> \&open_pdf);                     

sub open_pdf
{
   my @types =
       (["PDF files", [qw/.PDF /]],
        ["All files",        '*'],
       );
   $current_file= $mw->getOpenFile(-filetypes => \@types);
   print "$current_file\n";
}

MainLoop();

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Oh, oops don't need any "our" variables here... this was a quick hack from code a few years ago. But this runs with Perl 5.6/5.8/5.10 on Windows...should be ok on *nix also.

Update

there are some things that I would change if I wrote the code now, like: 

-command=> \&open_pdf ## better -command=> open_pdf(..params...)

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But at the end of the day, it is 2 lines of code to get a Tk GUI dialog up that will select a file.

In reply to Re: Perl Gui File browser select files by Marshall
in thread Perl Gui File browser select files by loztop

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