Hi all,

I am in the process of writing a program which alerts the user when a Mail is received by an IMAP server. I alert the user by displaying a Dialog box.

But what happens is, the program is getting blocked until, the user presses the ok buttoon

But I want to continue my program, even if the user didn't give input. I searched in perlmonks and I got posts regarding to use the splash screen

I've tried the following sample program 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Tk;
my $mw = tkinit;
$mw->withdraw();
my $i=0;
my $k=0;
while (1) {

        my $notification = $mw->Toplevel();
        $notification->geometry("+$i+$k");
        $i+=10;
        $k+=5;
        $notification->protocol('WM_DELETE_WINDOW' => sub { $notificat
+ion->withdraw;  });
        $notification->Label(
            -text       => 'Your message displayed here.',
            -height     => 5
        )->pack;
        $notification->withdraw;              
        $notification->deiconify;
        $notification->raise;
        $notification->update();
        $mw->after(5000);
}

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The code works. It display a new window in the given geomentry

Now If I click the close button in any one of the splash screen, I want to close only that splash screen

Can someone suggest how to do that??

I also wanted to know, is there any ways to make the dialog box to non-blocking??

--Lakshmanan G.

The great pleasure in my life is doing what people say you cannot do.

In reply to Non blocking a Dialog box in Perl Tk by lakshmananindia

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