Fellow Monks,
I'm still working on some perl-gtk programm and have come thru many of the problems with the standard perl-gtk tutorial and the source code of CSCMail.

Right now I got two questions burning:

  1. What other useful ressources are there to get knowledge from (like good programms' source or API description (not the PDF file from the GtkPerl website)
  2. (This is my main question)
    When I'm in the main loop of Gtk I can't do anything else.
At least I don't know any way to do anything there.
I figured out how to (e.g.) update a label showing the time from other sourcecode as: 
while (1) {
  while (Gtk->events_pending) {
    Gtk->main_iteration;
  }
  $time = strftime("%H:%M:%S",localtime());
  $time_label->set($time);
}

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But this uses up all the CPU time available. An additional 
sleep(1)

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within the while()-loop makes the whole programm respond very slowly.

So, since I need not only to update the time label but also have to check a file for a change since my last visit (and maybe I'll have to add more actions later)
I ask you, my Fellow Monks:

What else can I do??

Regards Stefan K

Edited 2001-04-09 by mirod: added </ol> tag

In reply to Actions During Main Gtk Loop by stefan k

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