[wxperl-users] Freezing windows

[Alejandro F. <af...@st...>]

Hi all..
First, thanks for the great wxPerl tool! I=B4m a newbie both to Perl and
wxWindows so i am having some hard times to get things working but
slowly my script gets looking user friendly.

I'm writing a GUI wrapper on Windows 2000 with Activestate to a
'untouchable' perl script, and for that i am using the open function to
get the output of the other script into a log window in the GUI. That
part look like this:

open STATUS, "theotherscript.bat -s$settings{SERVER} -check 2>&1 |"
                or die "can't fork: $!";
  while (<STATUS>) {
    $this->{TEXTWINDOW}->AppendText($_);
  }
close STATUS or $this->{TEXTWINDOW}->AppendText("-- ABNORMAL TASK
PROCESS ENDING. See log window for details. \n");

Now, if i stay at the window with the TextCtrl it works fine, i see the
output popping up while processing. But this can take a few minutes so
it will happen a lot that the user goes to another program, lets say to
check his mail. If he clicks the wxPerl tab again to see how it is going
nothing happens, the GUI will only come back when the child process
ends. Why?, can i change this behaviour?

Thanks again. Regards, Alejandro.

P.D. A fast link to download the samples at the home page would be a
great time saver! (i noticed that they exist only after reading some
really old messages on this list and then dowloaded them from ... i dont
remember).