I suspect you'll need to use a form of apartment threading (I call it zone threading) where multiple objects run in their own thread (in this case, Tk::MainWindow and all its descendents).

To expose the $mw object to the child threads, you'll need to create a proxy object (possibly as a threads::shared object) to wrap the Thread::Queue::Any back to the Tk "zone". You'll probably need to use AUTOLOAD within the proxy, as enumerating the entire set of calls possible on $mw is pretty difficult.

I'll offer Thread::Apartment::Client as an implementation of the concept.

However, Tk presents an add'l sticky issue: its a heavy user of closures, and passing closures between threads is not possible (and the closure should probably always run in its originating thread anyway). I hope to provide a solution to this in Thread::Apartment via proxied closures.

In reply to Re: Tk and Threads (again) by renodino
in thread Tk and Threads (again) by Ace128

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