Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] Win32GUI + Tk...??? possible?

[Johan L. <jo...@ba...>]

At 07:00 2001-10-30 -0600, Mark Wilkinson wrote:
>I have never tried, but I am pondering the possibilities of having 
>Win32GUI and
>PerlTK run simultaneously.  The problem, of course, is in the event looping -
>both need to have their event loops executed, and yet the call to execute the
>event loop is "blocking" as far as I can tell.  Has anyone ever tried to do
>this?

It sounds like a... dubious idea to me :)

But try this: in the main event loop in Tk (if there is one), call

Win32::GUI::DoEvents();

Or if there isn't one, try rolling your own main event loop in Win32::GUI 
and call both Win32::GUI::DoEvents() and the Tk analogue. Or add a 
Win32::GUI::Timer control to call the Tk::DoEvents() (or whatever it's called).


>   The solution is not entirely obvious to me, but perhaps it is obvious to
>someone else...  I am just frustrated at how difficult it is to create custom
>widgets in Win32, where it is childishly simple in Tk.  If I could have 
>the best
>of both worlds it would be marvellous!

What do you mean by custom widget?

If you want to draw the contents of your own control, there is the 
Win32::GUI::Graphic control which has a Paint event.


/J

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