Well, this is odd. I was jimmying up a simple morse code trainer just to see if it could be done. I used perl/Tk and bound the mouse buttons to some callbacks which use the hi-res timer to determine the length of the pulses sent by the user. It actually works with only a few lines of code. Then it occurred to me that I need to turn on a tone when the mouse button is pushed, and then turn it off when the button is released. This has me stumped. It has to be something that looks like a subroutine call to turn on the tone, and then immediately return, even though the tone is still sounding. Then another sub call to turn the tone off. obviously, a call to $widget->bell() won't cut it. It will look more like tone_on(); # do calculations and draw some stuff on gui # while the tone is sounding in the background tone_off(); Is there any way to do this in perl? Basically, I need to turn on a tone and then have it run in the background until I turn it off. ideas? _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
