I'm looking at the wxTimer Doc. and I am trying to create an event timer.have created an event timer.

this is the code I have so far, but it's not working. I can't seem to figure out what I'm doing wrong. It works, but seems to eat resources, even though it's not doing much...

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Wx;

package MyFrame;
use base 'Wx::Frame';
use Wx::Event qw(EVT_BUTTON);


sub new {
    my $ref = shift;
    my $self = $ref->SUPER::new(
                undef,        #Parent Window
                -1,        #Window ID (-1 means any)
                'wxPerl',    #Window Title
                [-1, -11],    #Default Position
                [250, 250],         #size
                );
    #create panel
    my $panel = Wx::Panel->new    (
                $self,        #parent window
                -1,            #id
    );
    
    #create button
    my $button = Wx::Button->new(
            $panel,        # Parent Panel
            -1,        # id
            'Click Me!',    # label
            [30, 20],            # position
            [-1, -1],            # default size
    );
    my $timer  = Wx::Timer->new(
                                $self,      # Parent Frame
                                -1,         # Timer ID
        );
        $timer->Start(1);
        EVT_TIMER $self, $timer, \&do_stuff;                
    EVT_BUTTON $self, $button, \&on_click_button;
    return $self;
}

sub on_click_button {
    my ($self, $event) = @_;
    $self->SetTitle( 'Clicked');
}

sub do_stuff {
        #get current focus Id;
        #determine if the ID has changed
        #etc
}


package MyTimer;
use base 'Wx::Timer';

sub new {
    my $self = shift;
    my $timer = Wx::Timer->wxTimer();
    return $timer;
}
1;    

package MyApp;
use base 'Wx::App';

sub OnInit {
    my $timer = MyTimer->new;
    $timer->Start(1);

    my $frame = MyFrame->new;
    $frame->Show(1);
    
}

package main;

my $app = MyApp->new;
$app->MainLoop;
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I'm really not sure how to construct the MyTimer object.

EDIT: To fix timer

Timer problem has been resolved. Any suggestions on the new solution to the timer presented?

I started this thread to work on the timer part of the application. for the full application please refer to this thread.

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