# from Foo JH
# on Monday 17 December 2007 19:11:
>I've asked this question before, and the collective wisdom in the
> wxPerl community is steering towards the use of POE instead. You may
> want to consider that.
I looked at that approach in dotReader and concluded that the Wx::POE
was using a (rather lazy) heartbeat. Wanting something more
aggressive, I wrote MultiTask::Manager and MultiTask::Minion and hooked
them to the wx idle event (plus LWP::Iterator::UserAgent.)
It does exactly what you're asking about -- non-blocking http requests.
Perhaps that could be done with Wx::POE, but the POE interface left a
bad taste in my mouth.
It's all in the dotReader distro on CPAN. They could be torn-off into
separate distros, but need some docs and tests.
--Eric
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