Re: [wxperl-users] SIGALRM(14) when I drag a frame

[Jouke V. <jo...@pv...>]

Stuart.Moore@Symbian.com wrote:
> Yes I'm using 5.8.0 - and the window involved uses a timer. Initial tests 
> suggest that might have been the problem.
> 
> Unfortunately I don't think 5.6 is an option as I need to launch some very 
> long tasks from the GUI and it'll be unresponsive unless I use threads. 
> It's my first experience of both perl GUI programming and perl threading, 
> and it's not fun :(
> 
> I don't suppose anyone has any suggestions. I can just about do without 
> the timer, but if this is a sign of other underlying problems I might end 
> up just writing the GUI in something else...

The SIGALRM in comjunction with the Wx::Timer are the only wxPerl && 
Perl 5.8.0 combinationproblems I'm aware of....I don't think you have to 
worry about anything else, unless other people here have run into other 
problems...

Jouke