The Perl debugger will not run on a 19,000 line program for a specialized text editor that I am trying to refactor. I believe the program occurs when one custom widget delegates to another custom subwidget. The first widget is called TextUnicode based on TextEdit with special methods to handle Unicode files. The second is called LineNumberText based on ROText to provide line numbers down the right hand side of the screen. Does this diagnosis sound correct and is there a simple fix I could use? Or do I need to combine these two widgets into one to avoid teh double delegation issue? The code can be found here:http://guiguts.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/guiguts/branches/devel/lib/Guiguts/. Here is the beginning of the two widgets:

package TextUnicode;
use base qw(Tk::TextEdit);
use File::Temp qw/tempfile/;
use File::Basename;
Construct Tk::Widget 'TextUnicode';

sub Load {...

sub SaveUTF {...

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package Guiguts::LineNumberText;
use Tk;
use Tk::widgets qw(ROText);
use base qw(Tk::Frame);
Construct Tk::Widget 'LineNumberText';

sub Populate {
    my ( $self, $args ) = @_;
    $self->SUPER::Populate($args);
    $self->{'minwidth'}       = 5;
    $self->{'linenumshowing'} = 0;
    my $widget;
    if ( $widget = delete $args->{-widget} ) {
        $widget = 'TextUnicode';
    }
    else {
        $widget = 'Text';
    }
    my $ltext = $self->ROText(
        -takefocus => 0,
        -cursor    => 'X_cursor',
        -bd        => 2,
        -relief    => 'flat',
        -width     => $self->{'minwidth'},
        -wrap      => 'none',
    );
    $ltext->{_MENU_} = ();
    $self->{'ltext'} = $ltext;
    $ltext->tagConfigure( 'CURLINE', -data    => 1 );
    $ltext->tagConfigure( 'RIGHT',   -justify => 'right' );
    my $ftext = $self->Scrolled($widget)
        ->grid( -row => 0, -column => 1, -sticky => 'nsew' );
    $self->{'rtext'} = my $rtext = $ftext->Subwidget('scrolled');
    $self->gridColumnconfigure( 1, -weight => 1 );
    $self->gridRowconfigure( 0, -weight => 1 );
    $self->Advertise( 'yscrollbar', $ftext->Subwidget('yscrollbar') );
    $self->Advertise( 'xscrollbar', $ftext->Subwidget('xscrollbar') );
    $self->Advertise( 'corner',     $ftext->Subwidget('corner') );
    $self->Advertise( 'frame',      $ftext );
    $self->Advertise( 'scrolled',   $rtext );
    $self->Advertise( 'text',       $rtext );
    $self->Advertise( 'linenum',    $ltext );

    # Set scrolling command to run the lineupdate..
    my $yscroll       = $self->Subwidget('yscrollbar');
    my $scrollcommand = $yscroll->cget( -command );

    $yscroll->configure(
        -command => sub {
            $scrollcommand->Call(@_);
            $self->_lineupdate;
        }
    );

    $self->ConfigSpecs(
        -linenumside => [ 'METHOD', undef,       undef,       'left' ]
+,
        -linenumbg   => [ 'METHOD', 'numlinebg', 'numLinebg', '#eaeaea
+' ],
        -linenumfg   => [ 'METHOD', 'numlinefg', 'numLinefg', '#000000
+' ],
        -curlinehighlight => [ 'PASSIVE', undef, undef, 1 ],
        -curlinebg        => [ 'METHOD',  undef, undef, '#00ffff' ],
        -curlinefg        => [ 'METHOD',  undef, undef, '#000000' ],
        -background       => [ $ftext,    undef, undef, undef ],
        -foreground       => [ $ftext,    undef, undef, undef ],
        -scrollbars       => [ $ftext,    undef, undef, 'se' ],
        -font             => ['CHILDREN'],
        -spacing1         => ['CHILDREN'],
        -spacing2         => ['CHILDREN'],
        -spacing3         => ['CHILDREN'],
        'DEFAULT'         => [$rtext],
    );

    $self->Delegates( 'DEFAULT' => 'scrolled' );

    #Bindings
    $ltext->bind( '<FocusIn>', sub { $rtext->focus } );
    $ltext->bind( '<Map>',     sub { $self->_lineupdate } );

    $rtext->bind( '<Configure>', sub { $self->_lineupdate } );
    $rtext->bind( '<KeyPress>',  sub { $self->_lineupdate } );
    $rtext->bind(
        '<ButtonPress>',
        sub {
            $self->{'rtext'}->{'origx'} = undef;
            $self->_lineupdate;
        }
    );
    $rtext->bind( '<Return>',          sub { $self->_lineupdate } );
    $rtext->bind( '<ButtonRelease-2>', sub { $self->_lineupdate } );
    $rtext->bind( '<B2-Motion>',       sub { $self->_lineupdate } );
    $rtext->bind( '<B1-Motion>',       sub { $self->_lineupdate } );
    $rtext->bind( '<<autoscroll>>',    sub { $self->_lineupdate } );
    $rtext->bind( '<MouseWheel>',      sub { $self->_lineupdate } );
    if ( $Tk::platform eq 'unix' ) {
        $rtext->bind( '<4>', sub { $self->_lineupdate } );
        $rtext->bind( '<5>', sub { $self->_lineupdate } );
    }

    my @textMethods
        = qw/insert delete Delete deleteBefore Contents deleteSelected
        deleteTextTaggedwith deleteToEndofLine FindAndReplaceAll GotoL
+ineNumber
        Insert InsertKeypress InsertSelection insertTab openLine yview
+ ReplaceSelectionsWith
        Transpose see/;

    if ( ref($rtext) eq 'TextUnicode' ) {
        push( @textMethods,
            'Load',     'SaveUTF',  'IncludeFile',
            'ntinsert', 'ntdelete', 'replacewith' );
    }
    for my $method (@textMethods) {
        no strict 'refs';
        *{$method} = sub {
            my $cw  = shift;
            my @arr = $cw->{'rtext'}->$method(@_);
            $cw->_lineupdate;
            @arr;
        };
    }
}    # end Populate
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