That version made more sense. If I split the MEGAWIDGET and save it as a *pm file, and call it, it works fine. It returns the key that was chosen. When I stick it in the program I am working on, it fails... It displays the widget and data, but the line below fails to execute.

MainLoop;

defined $selection and print "'$selection' was selected\n";
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Here you print '$selection' after 'MainLoop;' In the program. all the GUI stuff is in a subroutine called 'create_ui', which is executed after 'MainLoop;'. Will this mess anything up? An idea here? Anyways, I been learning a lot during this adventure -- thanks.