Re: [perl-win32-gui-hackers] [win32-gui] Threading for 1.5

[Robert M. <rm...@po...>]

jez...@ho... wrote:
> Rob & All,
> 
> One area that I personally would like to see improved is the generic support for threading in Win32-GUI. As it stands today, Win32-GUI is thread safe (well I haven't found a problem yet...) with later versions of perl (5.8.7 +). The real difficulty is thread communication in the event driven environment, but most of this has been resolved with Robs thread util package on his home page.  
> 
> What I would like to suggest is that the functionality of this package be formally moved into the core codeline. I am more than happy to provide coding, documentation and build various examples of what is (and isn't) possible with threading in Win32-GUI.
> 
> Any comments?

I have no issues if you'd like to take the code that I started and 
integrate it.  I'd suggest using the Makefile.PL from one of the newer 
sub-modules as a starting point ...

Let me know if I can do anything to help.

As an aside, I think I know why the examples of creating a child window 
in a separate tread never worked properly - it's almost certainly 
something to do with notifications (and other messages: WM_COLORCTL* 
...) that get sent to the control's parent which is in the other thread. 
  We may never get that to work, but I think it's worth it for the 
things that do work already.

Regards,
Rob.