[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rob & All,
One area that I personally would like to see improved is the generic support for threading in Win32-GUI. As it stands today, Win32-GUI is thread safe (well I haven't found a problem yet...) with later versions of perl (5.8.7 +). The real difficulty is thread communication in the event driven environment, but most of this has been resolved with Robs thread util package on his home page.
What I would like to suggest is that the functionality of this package be
formally moved into the core codeline. I am more than happy to provide coding,
documentation and build various examples of what is (and isn't) possible with
threading in Win32-GUI.
Any comments?
I have no issues if you'd like to take the code that I started and
integrate it. I'd suggest using the Makefile.PL from one of the newer
sub-modules as a starting point ...
Let me know if I can do anything to help.
As an aside, I think I know why the examples of creating a child window
in a separate tread never worked properly - it's almost certainly
something to do with notifications (and other messages: WM_COLORCTL*
...) that get sent to the control's parent which is in the other thread.
We may never get that to work, but I think it's worth it for the
things that do work already.
Regards,
Rob.
