Hi,

I realize that this is not necessarily the answer to the question I was orignially asking, but it certainly is a solution to my problem (see the parent node). The problem was that I could not have a responsive Tk GUI running in parallel with a blocking socket read (Tk::fileevent under Win32 is broken - at least on perl 5.6.1 - I think it should be fixed by 5.7 or 5.8). Well, FYI, here's a hack that works.

use IO::Socket;
use IO::Select;
use Tk;
use strict;

my $mw = MainWindow->new;
my $text = $mw->Text->pack();
my $button = $mw->Button(-text=>"quit",-command=>sub{exit;})->pack;
my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(
    Listen    => 5,
    Reuse     => 1,
    LocalPort => 7076,
    Proto     => 'tcp',
) or die "Couldn't open socket: $!";

my $sel = IO::Select->new;
$sel->add($sock);
$mw->repeat(50 => \&read_sock);

MainLoop;

sub read_sock {

  my(@ready) = $sel->can_read(0);
  return if $#ready == -1;

  my $line;
  my $new_sock = $sock->accept();
  $line = <$new_sock>;
  $text->insert('end',"$line\n");
}

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In reply to Solution to my problem by gri6507
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