Greetings, wise council, here's my sitch: I'm trying to write a quick n dirty graphical progress bar for monitoring our builds here (on a timer callback, count the number of .o's) My first thought was to go with Tk 
use Tk;

$total_objects = 303;
$progressbar_width = 2*$total_objects;
$progressbar_height = 50;

my $main = MainWindow->new;

$canvas1 = $main->Canvas(
  '-width' => $progressbar_width,
  -height => $progressbar_height,
  -background => 'black',
  -command => sub {print "oh shit"}
) -> pack;

$canvas1->create
('rectangle','0','0',10,$progressbar_height,-fill=>'red');

MainLoop;

sub myupdatefunk
{

}

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The stumbling block I have is that the MainLoop locks me from continuously updating the progress bar, and every example of timer function I've found seems to be Tk-centric, not workable with Perl. So my question is: Is there a better graphical toolkit for this job? OR If Tk is the answer, how does one implement a timer function in the creation of a Tk widget? The examples I have followed don't work well. Thanks in advance, Desert coder

In reply to Best Way to Implement a Progress Bar (Tk?) by JojoLinkyBob

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