I'm trying to make a window appear using Perl/Tk on Win32 that pops up, lets other stuff in the script execute, then goes away, ie, a "Wait" box. The obvious solution being using Tk::WaitBox, which draws a nice box. But I'm having a problem running the rest of the script while the box stays there. I've tried: 

my $top2 = MainWindow->new();
my $waitbox = $top2->WaitBox(-title=>"Connecting to agent $port",
        -txt1=>"Connecting to  Agent $port.\nConnection will be establ
+ished when this box closes.\n",
        -cancelroutine=>sub {
            print "\nCancelling...\n";
            $top2->unShow;
            die}
        );

fork and $waitbox->Show;

#do some non-graphical background stuff in here

$waitbox->unShow;

MainLoop();
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But this seems to consistently cause a page fault in TK.DLL.

Ideas on how to implement this?

Thanks,

Glenn

In reply to Perl/Tk and "wait" box by Anonymous Monk

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