Greetings all,
I'm back to fiddling with Perl/Tk stuff, and my recent project was to dink around with making a telnet client. Easy enough, really.
What I can't quite work out is how to smoothly read data from the server, while in the Perl/Tk event driven environment.
I mean, if I'm always waiting on events to happen in the Tk environ... how am I supposed to also get data from the server? What I have now works quite well, considering how nasty its implemented, but whenever the check is done, the whole app "pauses"... And thats no good.
$widget->repeat(2000, \&CheckInput);
MainLoop;

sub CheckInput {
        foreach my $data ($select->can_read(1)) {
                my $rv = $data->recv(my $buffer, POSIX::BUFSIZ, 0);
                unless (defined($rv) && length $buffer) {
                        &WWrite("\n[Disconnected]\n");
                        exit(0);
                        }
                &WWrite(&filter($buffer));
                }
        $widget->update();     
        }

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Functional, but oh so nasty.
What's the right way - or at least a BETTER way - to do what I'm trying to do?
Thanks Monks,

JP,
-- Alexander Widdlemouse undid his bellybutton and his bum dropped off --

In reply to Perl/Tk telnet client - reading server input in an Event Driven environment by JPaul

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