Fellow Monks,

I'm facing a bit of a mindblock, and not sure about which decision to go for.

I'm writing some app for Windows and there's a lot of Events that need blocking event monitors;

The first event is via Win32::Clipboard which waits for the clipboard to change and needs to capture the data and do something with it.

I'm coding a GUI for the app with wxPerl and not sure how to handle the clipboard thing since I get stuck within MainLoop.

So I decided to split it into two piece, one script handles capturing the clipboard data, and another for the GUI, so came the passing of data; fork+pipes are blocking. I tried to store the data in a temp file, but there was a need to notify the GUI that the temp file has changed, Win32::ChangeNotify can do that, but it's blocking.

I'm just starting with Wx, and probably missing much, is there a way to implement Win32::Clipboard from with a Wx app?

My idea was to try something like:

while (1) {
        # 100 as to try and make room for other things to happen
        # as if it is non-blocking
    if ($CLIP->WaitForChange(100) == 1) { 
        $clipboard = $CLIP->Get();
    }
}

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somewhere, but even that found no place to go...

Any pointers are appreciated.

He who asks will be a fool for five minutes, but he who doesn't ask will remain a fool for life.

Chady | http://chady.net/

In reply to Win32::Clipboard from within a wxPerl by Chady

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