Hello everyone,
  I'm writing a Tk chat client for a chat server I'm working on. I'd like the interface to be somewhat like Tk/Perl Chatterbox Client. It will have an entry box, where the user type things in to send the the server, and a non-editable box, where information from the server is displayed. The problem that I run into with this is that I need to regularly query the server to get information. The only way that I can think of to do this is to send the program into an eternal loop, where it sleeps for a few seconds and then queries the server. I need to be able to routinely query the server and still be able to access other parts of the program.

I looked through the code for Tk/Perl Chatterbox Client and was overwhelmed by the size of it. I wasn't able to RTFM, because I couldn't find any FM to read.

-Ben Jacobs (dooberwah)
"one thing i can tell you is you got to be free"

In reply to Querying a Server Periodically by dooberwah

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