Hi Gerry.

The first suspect is the installation of your Tk modules, as they shouldn't hang on simple things like that. I'd suggest trying to get the latest version via PPM, if you can, and failing that, install it by hand!

My other suggestion is to try a very simple Perl::Tk program, and see if that has the same issues. If it does, then it's likely to be the version of Tk that you've got!

Hope this helps....