It shouldn't. However, there's something to say about srand. Since you don't include any code, I can only guess what is going wrong. My guess is that you are doing something like: 
sub button_press {
    srand(time|$$);
    my $rand = rand();
    ... display $rand ...
}

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That's bad. Really bad. You shouldn't be calling srand more than once in your program, and for any Perl produced in the last 6 years or so, there's no need to call srand at all (unless you want a particular sequence). However, calling srand with a decent seed should still produce different numbers - if only because the seed is different. But time|$$ is a really lousy seed. Depending on the value of $$, it might take a while before time|$$ actually produces a different value. And that results in getting the same value from rand. The fact your console program gives different values comes because $$ changes. But then you still should see the same number reappear every once in a while.

In reply to Re: rand with Perl/Tk by Anonymous Monk
in thread rand with Perl/Tk by biochris

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