Re: [sprog-users] Re: DBI Gear

[Matthew K. <df...@ya...>]

--- Grant McLean <gr...@mc...> wrote:


> 
> Except that no one would describe Perl threads as
> elegant.
> The Gtk2 libraries are also reputed to have 'issues'
> with 
> threads.  I haven't tried using them together but I
> was 
> advised not to by someone who should know :-)
> 
Yes !  I just tried it and found those very 'issues'. 
There's also the even bigger problem of the fact that
there's no 'kill' or 'destroy' method available for
threads, which kind of defeats the purpose.
> 
> 
> I intended to use IPC::Open2/3.  Obviously that
> would use 
> fork on *nix, but on Windows it seems to use the
> native 
> spawn functions.
> 

I'll try out IPC::Open* and see how I go.  I'll also
have a look at fork() (which I've found out does have
an 'emulation' on Windows) and see if that also might
help, although I don't think we want to fork the
entire sprog process.  I'll let you know how I go.

> 
> Yes :-)  But you're not the only one.
> 
> If you want to connect gear B to the output of gear
> A, then 
> drag B and drop it on A.  The secret is that when
> you drop it, 
> the top left corner of B must be within the outline
> of A.

I thought I'd tried all combinations of that, but I'll
give it another go.

> 
> I plan to redo that area and add support snapping to
> the closest
> connector as well as for moving gears with the
> keyboard.
> 

Yep, I'd have to say it's not particularly intuitive
right now.



	

	
		
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