I have a Perl::Tk application which handles a number of functions to manipulate text and run background processes. The problem I have is that if I leave the application running on my machine, the following day the display somehow gets corrupted. All the widgets disappear or blend in and Tk's main window somewhat displays remnant icons from the desktop!! It's really odd. Almost like a situation when you run out of memory resources and your application starts dragging other icons because of latency issues. However, if you click on the windows the icons seem to function as they are suppoed to; that's if you are lucky enough to click on the right button :-). This is a Windows box with memory to spare. Is this a memory leak? Anyway around it? I need to share the application with a customer and I am hesitant to do so if they are going to have the same problem. I have added the following:
my $repeat = $mw->repeat( 250, sub{$mw->update()} );
before the mainloop but I am not sure if it's enough! Thanks for your feedback.

In reply to Perl::tk and Display/Memory Issues by Anonymous Monk

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