Re: [wxperl-users] wxFTP and progress information

[Simon F. <sf...@fl...>]

Mike Schroeder wrote:
> mat...@li... wrote:
> 
>>> I'm guessing that I'll need to run 2 threads, one to update the GUI and
>>> one to handle the ftp conversation. If (2) is possible, would running
>>> multi-threaded cause any problems?
>>>   
>>
>>
>>  I do not know if anybody has written a multi threaded
>> application with wxPerl. I think using two threads is the
>> best approach.
>>  
>>
> We've got wxPerl and POE working nicely together now -- so you can use 
> things like POE::Component::Client::UserAgent -- a non-blocking parallel 
> UA.
> 
> Just another option.  Once our code stabalizes a bit more, we hope to 
> share wxPOE (unless someone has a better name ;) ).

That'd be great. I tried using POE::Wheel::Wx that you posted last year 
but hit a bit of an impasse when I couldn't build POE for 5.6.1 on Win32.

I'm going to try again, POE would be useful for a personal project I'm 
working on which doesn't need to run on perl 5.6.1.

Simon