RE: ActiveState announces ActivePerl 5.14.2

Hello Jan, will PerlApp 8.2.1 build 292072 compile this version of Perl? How can I find out this info in the future? Thanks. Alex -Original Message- From: activeperl-boun...@listserv.activestate.com [mailto:activeperl-boun...@listserv.activestate.com] On Behalf Of Jan Dubois Sent: Thur

RE: A Perl::Tk question

Thanks Jack, yes another member suggested method 1 and I am going to be using that. The reason for using this is that a legacy app ( no source, probably VB) was giving clients a text box with a 5 box choice as to what they wanted to do with the input, so each box press would slightly modify the ca

A Perl::Tk question

Hi there, I need to know the name of the object that called me from inside my callback routine. For instance I have 3 buttons, they all call the same subroutine, if button number 3 was pressed, I want to be able to determine that at run time. Even if it's just by reading the button text. How do I

RE: fork() and ithreads in AS Perl 5.8.6

Excerpt < My first attempt used fork() to launch the sub-processes, and each sub-process would then call exit(0) when complete. However, it appears that exit(0) doesn't release the thread handles: the manager would fork 64 sub-processes successfully, and then die