What do these Perl/Tk errors from Tk::After mean?

Here are the errors:

$ perl ftper.pl
Use of uninitialized value $id in hash element at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.1
/i686-cygwin/Tk/After.pm line 39.
se of uninitialized value $id in hash element at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.1
/i686-cygwin/Tk/After.pm line 39.
se of uninitialized value $id in hash element at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.1
/i686-cygwin/Tk/After.pm line 39.
se of uninitialized value $id in hash element at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.1
/i686-cygwin/Tk/After.pm line 39.
se of uninitialized value $id in hash element at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.1
/i686-cygwin/Tk/After.pm line 39.
se of uninitialized value $id in hash element at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.1
/i686-cygwin/Tk/After.pm line 39.
se of uninitialized value $id in delete at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/i686
cygwin/Tk/After.pm line 87.
se of uninitialized value $id in delete at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/i686
cygwin/Tk/After.pm line 87.
se of uninitialized value $id in delete at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/i686
cygwin/Tk/After.pm line 87.
se of uninitialized value $id in delete at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/i686
cygwin/Tk/After.pm line 87.
se of uninitialized value $id in delete at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/i686
cygwin/Tk/After.pm line 87.
se of uninitialized value $id in delete at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/i686
cygwin/Tk/After.pm line 87.

Here is the Perl/Tk code:

#! /usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Tk;
use Tk::Scale;
use File::DosGlob 'glob';


#####################################################################
# Define variables                              #
#####################################################################
my $UserID;
my $Password;
my $BnsNode;
my $Status_msg = "BUILD SCRIPT!";

#####################################################################
# Window variables                          #
#####################################################################
my $mw;
my $frmUserID;
my $lblUserID;
my $frmPassword;
my $lblPassword;
my $edtUserID;
my $edtPassword;
my $frmTop;
my $frmBig;
my $frmButtonLine;
my $btnExit;
my $btnSubmit;
my $lblStatus;
my $lblUnixNode;
my $frmUnixNode;
my $edtUnixNode;

#################################################################
# Main Logic                            #
#################################################################
init_mainwindow();
MainLoop;



#################################################################
# init_mainwindow                       #
#################################################################
sub init_mainwindow {
    $mw = MainWindow->new;
    $mw->title("BUILD");
    $mw->resizable(100, 100);
    $mw->geometry("+175+100");

    # Top Level frame for top section of form.
    $frmTop = $mw->Frame(-bd => 2, -relief => 'ridge')
        ->pack(-side => 'top', -fill => 'x', -pady => 3);


    $frmUserID = $frmTop->Frame(-bd => 2)->pack(
        -side => 'top', -fill => 'x');
    $lblUserID = $frmUserID->Label(-text => "Unix User ID:")
        ->pack(-side => 'left');
    $edtUserID = $frmUserID->Entry(-textvariable => \$UserID,
        -background => 'white')->pack(-side => 'left');


    $frmUnixNode = $frmTop->Frame(-bd => 2)->pack(
    -side => 'top', -fill => 'x');
    $lblUnixNode = $frmUserID->Label(-text => "BNS Number")
        ->pack(-side => 'left');
    $edtUnixNode = $frmUserID->Entry(-textvariable => \$BnsNode,
    -background => 'white')->pack(-side => 'left');


$frmPassword = $frmTop->Frame(-bd => 2)->pack(
    -side => 'top', -fill => 'x');
$lblPassword = $frmPassword->Label(
    -text => "Password:    ")->pack(-side => 'left');
$edtPassword = $frmPassword->Entry(-textvariable => \$Password,
    -background => 'white', -show => "*")
    ->pack(-side => 'left');



# Top Level frame for bottom section of form.
$frmButtonLine = $mw->Frame(-bd => 2, -relief => 'ridge')
    ->pack(-side => 'top', -fill => 'x', -pady => 3);
    $btnExit = $frmButtonLine->Button(-text => "Exit", 
        -command => \&close_mw, -width => 6)->pack(
        -side => 'right', -padx => 1);
        $btnSubmit = $frmButtonLine->Button(-text => "Run Script", 
    -command => \&execute_script, -width => 6)->pack(
        -side => 'right', -padx => 1);
    $lblStatus = $mw->Label(-textvariable => \$Status_msg,
        -borderwidth => 2, -relief => 'groove')
        ->pack(-fill => 'x', -side => 'bottom');

    $edtUserID->focus;

}


#####################################################################
# excute_script                             #
#####################################################################
sub execute_script {
    unless (defined($UserID)) {
        update_status("Must enter a user id!");
        $edtUserID->focus;
        return 0;
    }
    unless (defined($Password)) {
        update_status("Must enter a password!");
        $edtPassword->focus;
        return 0;
    }

    update_status("$BnsNode ,$UserID ");
}

#####################################################################
# close_mw                              #
#####################################################################
sub close_mw {
    $mw->destroy;
}


#####################################################################
# update_status                             #
#####################################################################
sub update_status {
    my ($msg) = @_;

    $Status_msg = $msg;
    $lblStatus -> update;
}

Solution

The error messages themselves are straightforward enough:

Use of uninitialized value $id in hash element at ...Tk/After.pm line 39.

Use of uninitialized value $id in delete at ...Tk/After.pm line 87.

"Use of uninitialized value" means that you used a value with a value of undef (undefined).
$id is the name of the uninitialized variable.
"in hash element" means that you used the value as hash key, e.g. $h{$id}
"in delete" means that you used the value as a hash key to be deleted. e.g. delete $h{$id}
"...Tx/After.pm" is the module where the error occurred.
"line 39" and "line 87" are the line numbers (in the module) where the error occurred.

Tk::After provides callback scheduling to Perl/Tk applications. Things like "run this function after (or every) 500 ms." $id is the identifier for a specific callback on a widget.

What do do about the warnings is harder. I don't see any explicit calls to Tk::After in the code you provided. It's possible that there's a bug in your Tk installation that's triggering the warning. I don't get any warnings when running it under Perl 5.10 with Tk 804.028.