Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] Alarm clock

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

Ed wrote:
>The way I would probably do this, without a gui, is to
>read the file,
>figure out what time to go off, convert it to seconds
>and sleep until then.
>But I can't do that because the main gui loop is
>always running waiting
>for an event, correct?
>How would I do a periodic check on the alarm time, and
>not interfere
>with the main gui loop, can these be reconciled?

Take a look at the Win32::GUI::Timer control. It can be set to trigger an 
event every n milliseconds(?) in which you can do your stuff.


/J

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