To all,

I'm developing a TK script which updates a series of buttons and switches based upon information from within a database. I've used the 'repeat' command on the TK main window to update the screen by pulling data out of the database:-


    # Constantly refresh the GUI
    $mw->repeat( 1000 => sub { &GUI_Refresh } );

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I've also got a number of child processes monitoring serial ports and doing other fun stuff (basically I'm asking quite a lot from the script).

Functionally this all works fine however I have an annoying problem with the windows cursor which keeps going 'busy' and flickering between the hour glass and the normal pointer (it's going to give my end user a headache).

Does anybody know of a command (TK or other) which prevents the cursor from going busy. At the moment I have changed the default busy cursor graphic, within windows setup, to be the same as the default arrow (proper hacker) - can this be automated from within Perl or is there a even better solution?

Thanks in advance for any help provided,
Butch.

In reply to Cursor busy annoyance by Butch

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