RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] window freezes when connecting to IRC

[Jeremy White]

I have been trying to create a GUI for my IRC bot, but no matter what I 
try, the GUI freezes once it connects. I know that the GUI has a loop and 
that NET::IRC has it's own loop; therefore I have used NET::IRC's 
do_one_loop and WIN32::GUI's DoEvents. I've even tried lagging the irc loop 
to get the window to update reguraly, but it didn't work either, here is my 
program's main loop:

while (!$terminate) {
   $window->DoEvents();
   if ($loop > 90000 && $connected) {
       $irc->do_one_loop();
       $loop = 0;
   }
   else { $loop++; }
}

Assuming there is no logic issues with the above (add a couple of print 
statements to see if you get to DoEvents) then the only thing I can think of 
is that NET::IRC is doing a blocking call, resulting in a frozen GUI. If 
this is the case, then you are best moving to a threaded solution, were one 
thread deals the GUI, with the other dealing with NET::IRC.

Cheers,

jez.