A couple of simple things if you had performance difficulties. After you have the $notifyObj you will notice that I don't actually use the Notify portion of Win32::ChangeNotify. You need to use the Tk timer event to check the file, you will see from the line: 
$mw->repeat( 2000, \&checkNotify );

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That I use the Tk internal timer to call checkNotify, then in that sub I do: 
my $rv = $notifyObj->wait(0);

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So I call the notify object with a timeout of 0 - i.e. I ask it to return immediately with the status. Just to check, I have Benchmark already running in the application the code came from. Here are the timings for three runs through the changeNotofy: 
A3G took: 8.82149e-005 wallclock secs ( 0.00 usr +  0.00 sys =  0.00 C
+PU)
A3G took: 0.000113964 wallclock secs ( 0.00 usr +  0.00 sys =  0.00 CP
+U)
A3G took: 8.60691e-005 wallclock secs ( 0.00 usr +  0.00 sys =  0.00 C
+PU)

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At a maximum of 114us I don't see a performance issue here.

jdtoronto

In reply to Re^3: Tk GUI and Listen? by jdtoronto
in thread Tk GUI and Listen? by Anonymous Monk

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