I'm needing to write a program that can run 1, 2 or both socket servers and display their output in a list box in real time.

Ah, a perfect time for me to learn Tk! So I put together this nice interface with the top half for server1 and the bottom have for server2. Each has a button to start and stop the server and each a list box for output.

Then I started to implement the servers as Threads and then the trouble began with various kinds of crashes. A SuperSearch provided some info here that threads may not get along with Tk.

I tried launching a new thread in a sub that was called when clicking a button. That seemed okay but the thread tries to log a message to the listbox and that appears to be a problem even when I declare the sub as "sub name : locked {}".

So I'm looking for other strategies for acomplishing my task. Threads, no threads, it doesn't matter. It has to run on Win2k or WinXp. I'm using perl 5.8.7. I need to be able to start and stop the servers at any time.

Oh wise Monks, can you show me a path?

In reply to How to run multiple server processes under Tk? by noslenj123

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