Most generous thanks to everyone who has replied so far - I really appreciate it!

Currently I'm working on a method heavily based on liverpole's and ruoso's suggestions, and it's working beautifully. The interface is constantly responsive and everything seems to work as it should.

I think in the long term, eriam's solution is the most appropriate - POE seems like a pretty solid module that might be best suited for anything larger than the application I'm producing. I'll certainly keep POE in mind for any future GUI work that I need to do.

Outaspace: I did try something along those lines, and while it worked brilliantly on Win2K/XP, it didn't perform very well on Win98/ME; in fact if I recall correctly it didn't want to work at all. I did take a look at wxPerl some time ago and you're right, it does take a lot of effort, but it would be the better long-term solution. I definitely wouldn't do anything bigger than this with Win32::GUI.

Thanks again for everyones' responses! :)

In reply to Re: Keeping a Win32::GUI interface responsive while executing other code? by Anonymous Monk
in thread Keeping a Win32::GUI interface responsive while executing other code? by Anonymous Monk

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.