Re: solution for fileevent on Win32 ???

See Non-blocking socket read on Windows. I "think" that fileevent will work on Win32, did you try it? The problem with fileevent on Win32, is that it won't work on pipe filehandles( you need the Win32::Pipe module). But it should works on sockets. IPC::Run(which uses sockets)is often suggested as an IPC substitute for IPC::Open3 (which uses pipes), for use on Win32.

Here is an example, see if it runs for you on Win32. Tk Realtime data aquisition

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Re^2: solution for fileevent on Win32 ??? by cta (Acolyte) on Jul 11, 2008 at 14:12 UTC
I tried using fileevent command and it didn't work on Win32 and you were right about the handle. Thanks. I'm still working on the timer event to see if I could get around the problem. And hmm having error while trying to open the socket.	[reply]
Re^3: solution for fileevent on Win32 ??? by zentara (Cardinal) on Jul 11, 2008 at 16:04 UTC
See Re^2: Perl/Tk App and Interprocess Communication for setting up a timer on a filehandle. You may need to use sysread instead of <> on the filehandle. I wish I had windows going so I could test, but no. :-( I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth CandyGram for Mongo	[reply]
Re^4: solution for fileevent on Win32 ??? by cta (Acolyte) on Jul 16, 2008 at 19:25 UTC
Thanks for all the suggestions. Your solution works just fine. But I think I'm going to adopt the POE framework for this project. I create one POE session to read an input and another one to integrate that input to my Tk Canvas. I cannot give more details because I'm still learning how to set up POE environment. But It seems to be a really promising way. You don't need to know in the low level how to corporate different tasks in the same time, POE takes care of that for you. Cheers,	[reply]