Good Evening Monks, I've been playing arround with Tk for a while and I came up with a working prototype of a POS (Point of Sale) which I use for couple of months in couple of restaurants (http://butchersgrill.com/software/opentill.jpg)... However - In my scenario my server is plain (no GUI) Perl application that is forking for each of my clients... Socket that listens for the connections from my POS clients... The problem that I have is that the comunication is only one way - which means that I don't have socket that listens on the Tk (client) side. So shorter - I do the following: Client sends request to the server and gets reply from the server. I just want to add to this - "Server sends request to the client and client answers" ie... full duplex comunication. My problem is that Tk has got it's own event loop - so I can not have something like "while(1) ..." in the Tk program. I tried using POE with Filter::Reference and Socket Wheel on top of Tk... but it slows down my comunication speed dramticaly... For example my server response time jumped from 0.0001 seconds to 0.3 / 0.4 seconds - which is unaceptable for me. I tried everything - but it looks that I am not lucky. Can you please help me. In two words - I need Tk application example for a program that acts as a client and a server in a non-blocking manner using either Fork or Threads, something that will run fine on Active State Perl. I can not afford using IO::Select because of the server multitasking required... Thank you for your expertise.

In reply to Listening Socket in Tk by avo

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