in reply to what is busy(0)

More context would help.

A search on CPAN for "grabRelease" hints at Tk. And a grep there for "busy" shows a bunch of hits, but no function of that exact name. Did you declare a sub in your code named busy?

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Re^2: what is busy(0)
by gimcdan (Acolyte) on May 19, 2015 at 15:43 UTC

    Monks... please pardon my ignorance. busy in this context is a local function declared by the original programmer to decide whether a widget is busy... to then control:

    $guiMain->Busy(-recurse => 1);

    OR

    $guiMain->Unbusy(1);

    Sorry for wasting your time.

      Oh, it's not as serious as all that. Just suggesting a path toward optimization of getting your answer. Most of us are pretty relaxed here at the Monastery; and those who are not simply serve their purpose of being an example of how not to behave in public. : -)