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I think you really need to do a $thread->join at the end of your subroutine.

But instead of polling, I would have the thread send a (Windows) message to the main thread to tell the main thread/window that it can now fetch the data and update things.

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Re^4: threads causing memory leak
by holli (Abbot) on Sep 11, 2010 at 13:45 UTC
    That's an interesting idea. I will consider it.


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