Thanks again to zentara for helping me out with my threading issue in wxPerl. One last obtsacle I'm facing is how do I pass a blessed object into a new thread? I have an example wxPerl app seen here. My last issue is passing the constructor object from Net::Twitter into a new thread. I've taken zentara's advice and created my worker threads prior to my UI creation and this works great. (My script no longer crashes on OS X 10.5 :) ) Currently my script creates a $twit object by logging into Twitter, but passing that blessed object to my worker thread is proving to be a challenge and I'm not sure what the best method is.

As you'll see I already have a shared hash called: 

use threads;
use threads::shared;
use Thread::Queue;

use Wx;

my %thread_hash;
share(%thread_hash);

# ... 

# create $twit object
eval {

    my $twit = Net::Twitter->new( { 
    username  => $username, 
    password  => $password,
    } );

    if ( defined $twit ) {

        # I've tried setting it here 
        # but it complains ...
        $thread_hash{'twit'} = $twit;
 
        # This works fine, and it's what I currently call
        # but I can't access this from the thread because
        # the worker thread was created way before any 
        # of this code.
        $self->{twit} = $twit;
    }
};
if ( my $err = $@ ) {
    return;
}

# ...

# starting my actual thread
sub StartThread {
    
    my ($self, $event) = @_;

    use Data::Dumper;
    print Dumper( %thread_hash );

    
    $self->{queue}->enqueue('GO'); 
}

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But trying to pass the blessed $twit object into the shared data structure doesn't work.

Any advice or examples would be grealy appreciated.
Thanks

In reply to passing shared blessed object? by Anonymous Monk

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