Hi monks,

I'm using perl since some time now and I just wanted to see some new aspects of it. So i started writing a Tk-Based mp3-player(-interface) in oop using threads.
The question is: How can i share objectes between threads?
Example:
I have my main application, a gui-object, a player and one object for each mp3-file (in @mp3s). The player is a loop that is started in a thread and listens on a Thread::Queue for instructions, polls the player (mpg321) and stores some information in another queue. The gui has its own loop.
The only way i figured out to let the player play a song was to push its filename directly in the thread::queue because @mp3s can not be shared. I think this is firstly ugly, secondly not really oop and i don't like it personally.
So if i could call a method in the player-module providing a shared mp3-object all my problems where solved...

Note: writing "my @mp3s : shared;" and filling it later with objects makes Perl say: "Invalid value for shared scalar"

Thanks in advance, Robert

In reply to trouble writing threaded and object oriented by roben

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