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in reply to Perl Tk Active Window

Try the Win32::MsgBox out of the Win32 module. This pops up a system message box without the TK overhead. The code example below will execute the popup after the script runs
use Win32; use strict; END{ Win32::MsgBox("I'm Done.", MB_ICONINFORMATION); }