>> The win32 API has a SetTimer() function that
>> lets you pass a callback procedure to be called
>> when the specified time period has elapsed.
>> Maybe it would be possible to implement this in Perl?
SetTimer() relies on sending a WM_TIMER message, and an event loop looking for
that.
If you can already break your program into tidy sections, and you have a message
loop, fine, but most windows code (and especially the APIs, which is where
people tend to block) just isn't made to be arbitrarily interrupted.
Like I said before, learn to do it the Win32 way, don't try to make Windows do
what it wasn't built to do, believe me, it won't surprise you with it's
flexibility in the way that Perl and Unix do.
Tim
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