How do I manualy create a GLArea inside a Glade2Perl created Perl App?

[Wayne Keenan <wk metaverse fsnet co uk>]

As the subject says, plus...

I have a toplevel window containing a 3x Vbox (menubar, main, status
bar)
which contains a 2x HBox in the 'main' section.
I am using Glade and creating Perl code via Glade2Perl.

Could (or should) I go about it by using the 'Custom Widget'?

As an aside, does anyone know of anybody currently writing a Gtk Book
with Perl in mind?

Many thanks in advance,

Wayne