You're probably looking for TK::Zinc ... Tk:Zinc looks great and use OpenGL. You can also install it from CPAN directly :Tk::Zinc (but I suppose you'd better download the windows binaries instead).
thanks heaps...tkzinc is ace, and incidentally i've been looking for such a change in gui's in general. rectangles with a picture/text to click on don't cut it for me anymore. cheers.
the hardest line to type correctly is: stty erase ^H