I am feeding a Wx::ListCtrl with an image list and use the following code to read images in from file: 
my $images_sm = Wx::ImageList->new( 16, 16, 1 );
$images_sm->Add( Wx::Bitmap->new("bin/icons/$_.gif", wxBITMAP_TYPE_GIF
+) );

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This works.
Now, moving the image data into a module and reading in the data from a string fails, why? 
use MIME::Base64 ();

$raw_data = "R0lGODlhEAAQAJEAAAAAAP///+vc3AAAACwAAAAAEAAQAAACDpSPqcvtD
+6OctNqLsz4FADs=";

my $icon_data = MIME::Base64::decode_base64( $raw_data );


    my $images_sm = Wx::ImageList->new( 16, 16, 1 );
    my $file = IO::Scalar->new( \$icon_data );
    my $image = Wx::Image->new();
    $image->LoadFile( $file, wxBITMAP_TYPE_ANY );
    close($file);
    $images_sm->Add( Wx::Bitmap->new($image, -1) );

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I hope I did not infuse an error while copy&paste'ing the simplified code...

In reply to What's wrong with this Wx::Bitmap construction? by isync

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