Hi,

Two things:

I have had reasonable success using the Perl's threading api on windows. In fact, using the new threads, everything work exactly as I expected.

A second approach to threading would be spawning a new process to check. You can use the Tk::Send to communicate between the two. Just make you new process a Main Window that is not visible. It will then be able to use Send, and your Main interafce would use Recieve.

Good luck. Post back what you decided to do and why!.

"Never take yourself too seriously, because everyone knows that fat birds dont fly" -FLC

In reply to Re: Long-running DB query makes Tk application unresponsive by scmason
in thread [solved] Long-running DB query makes Tk application unresponsive by radiantmatrix

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