Re: [wxperl-users] wxThread round2

[Matt S. <ma...@se...>]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Marco Trudel wrote:

> > > can someone give me a little example how to use wxThread in wxPerl?
> > > i really can't figure out how this works...
> > wxThread is not yet wrapped; I didn't wrap it because if you want threads,
> you should
> > use Perl threads, not wx ones; the only caveat is that you can only call
> the GUI
> > functions from the main thread
> > ( the one in wich Wx::App was created ); other threads can communicate
> with the main
> > thread using Wx::EvtHandler::AddPendingEvent();
> >
> > HTH
> > Mattia
>
> ok,
> i'll tried it with fork()... (looks like active perl doesn't support
> Thread.pm)
> the problem is that i have a process that needs some time, if i just call it
> the gui freezes while the process works...
> how can i prevent this? thought it would be a solution to make a thread and
> wait for it, but this freezes the window too (right? didn't test it)
>
> so, can someone give me an example how to solve this problem?
> would be great

Win32::Process ?

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