After a lot of tries, I discover a solution which seems to be the good one : the "-style" option must include the constant WS_VISIBLE. My code works well as this : $mainWin->AddListbox( -name => "listBox", -left => 500, -top => 200, -width => 150, -height => 80, -style => WS_VISIBLE | WS_VSCROLL, ); Thanks to all for your answers and have a good Perl programming day. Patrick.