I don't know about the rest -- but for the 'caller' bit: caller() returns information about the sub that called the current sub. In the code that you gave, caller would normally return nothing when called as a regular script because nothing _called_ this code, instead this code is where everything starts.

What must be happening is that in PAR there is some script that kicks off, and then does a 'do' or similar on your script.

You might be able to illustrate this to yourself by dumping out a stack trace. Just above your 'unless', put:

use Carp qw( cluck );
cluck('Dumping stacktrace!');

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That will print out the whole callchain. Now run your program directly, and then again from a PAR exe, and note the difference.

In reply to Re: wxperl + PAR::Packer + GUI not working by awwaiid
in thread wxperl + PAR::Packer + GUI not working by alfoos

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