You have to forgive me. I havent got around to actually testing this until just now. Now the problem seems to be me not being able to actually associate the dropped file with a filehandle.
I tried the following code : 
$frame->DragAcceptFiles(1);
EVT_DROP_FILES( $frame, \&doit );
sub doit { #warn "@_\n" 
    open ( our $file, '<', @_ ) or die "$!";
    \&otherSub($file);
}

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And ofcourse it didnt work and has sent me into a downwards spiral of searching in google and trying everything i could find lol, but i still couldnt find an example that made me have that "ah-ha" moment.
I use the our statement so the dropped file will be available throught the script. would this be the correct concept? I understand the way i am trying to associate the dropped file with the filehandle isnt correct and any insight will be very much appreciated :)

In reply to Re^2: WxPerl and drag and dropping files by james28909
in thread WxPerl and drag and dropping files by james28909

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