I’ve been tied up for a bit and did not see this reply until today.

The approach is interesting (hadn’t thought of this attack) but unfortunately I do not think that it will work reliably. The problem is that it assumes that events will continue to occur during the interval. While they frequently do, they do NOT ALWAYS DO so. The consequence is that you can not rely on the event routine being executed. The only thing I can find after looking at the Win32::OLE code that is guaranteed to be true is that you are in a classic and very tight Com message dispatch loop.

Does anyone know how to start a conversation with the Win32::OLE folks? I’ve tried cpan and doing a bug report. Also sent an email to the listed author address.