On Tue, 08 Jan 2008, Shmuel Fomberg wrote: > I am currently playing with C#. It have a nice feature that one thread can > call a function in other thread's context. (using the Invoke command, or the > asynchronic BeginInvoke command) > This is useful especially in a GUI program, where one thread is handling the > GUI, and worker threads need to post status. > > So how do we do it in Perl? > Sending signal and relaying the command somehow?
All cross-thread communication with GUI threads should use the Windows message queue. Check your GUI library for an interface to the PostMessage() API to send notifications from the worker thread to the GUI thread. Cheers, -Jan
