I haven't played with threads while using Win32::GUI. I have created a fairly complicated perl based service that used threads, so I'd be willing to help you out with this one.
Supply me with a sample script (with animation files attached) and I'll see if I can get a threaded version running. For the Win32::GUI guirus (spelling intended:-)), is Win32::GUI thread safe? Brian Millham This message traveled at least 44,000 miles to reach you! Creator of the DW6000 Monitor http://www.millham.net/dw6000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Igor Anufriyenko Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 8:31 PM To: perl-win32-gui-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] PerlApp issue Brian, I have tried fork(), threads, Thread - none of them work. So far opening a pipe for reading open (CM,"gpresult |" ) and system() function proved to work in uncompiled script. The latter is quite interesting since it does a hidden fork() for you. All what I am trying to achieve is running findfile animation to spice up users' passtime while shell utilities running on the background. Modules used in this script are Win32::OLE, Win32::GUI::Loft, Win32(); A working example of the multi-thread implementation in the GUI script would be much appreciated. Thank you, ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Millham <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'Igor <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Anufriyenko' Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 11:58 PM Subject: RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] PerlApp issue I'm surprised that this works at all, even as a script. I'd expect the animation to hang, because the script is stopped waiting for your gpresult program to run. You may want to consider running gpresult in a separate thread. Brian Millham This message traveled at least 44,000 miles to reach you! Creator of the DW6000 Monitor http://www.millham.net/dw6000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Igor Anufriyenko Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 10:34 PM To: perl-win32-gui-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [perl-win32-gui-users] PerlApp issue Hello, After compiling Win32::GUI script with PerlApp PDK 6.0.2 and running it as EXE Animation control freezes while fork() or system() are executed on the background to run CPU-intensive processes. However, uncompiled .PL script runs fine - AVI file is being played OK. Does anybody have a workaround ? or had a similar issue? code looks similar to this: sub btn_Start_Click { $animation->Open(file.avi); $animation->Play(0,-1,-1); $animation->Show(); &runsomething(); } sub runsomething { open CH, "gpresult |"; while (<CH>) { #do something...; } # or : system("gpresult"); close CH; } As mentioned above, perl script.pl runs just fine, though child process utilizes up to 99% of CPU time. I have tried DoEvents() with no effect whatsoever. Thank you, Igor. --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0552-1, 12/28/2005 Tested on: 12/28/2005 11:58:16 PM avast! is copyright (c) 2000-2003 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com --- avast! Antivirus: Inbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0552-2, 12/29/2005 Tested on: 12/29/2005 8:41:02 PM avast! is copyright (c) 2000-2003 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0552-2, 12/29/2005 Tested on: 12/29/2005 8:46:27 PM avast! is copyright (c) 2000-2003 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com
