in reply to Problems with Tk freezing

If you use a pattern like Language::Logo where the graphic portion is a separate thread, then you could handle the bots in one thread and the display in a separate thread. Then your bots could update at a rate that is not linked to your display refresh. I don't know how to do this ;) but it would be cool if someone built a module that would allow this kind of disassociation between a Tk window and long running processes


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Re^2: Problems with Tk freezing
by rinceWind (Monsignor) on Feb 06, 2007 at 16:37 UTC

    Fork a process with a piped open, open2 or open3 (to do the bot stuff), then use Tk::fileevent.

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