Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] Window doesn't appear until codehas finished

2008-04-23 Thread Brian Rowlands (Greymouth High School)
Thanks for that help. Seems to be just what I wanted. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Emmanuel E Sent: Thursday, 24 April 2008 1:31 a.m. To: perl-win32-gui-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] Window doesn'

Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] Window doesn't appear until code has finished

2008-04-23 Thread Emmanuel E
Title: Window doesn't appear until code has finished I think he means he wants to use threads. So that one thread can take care of the window in the foreground and another the code in the background... Ilya BANDORIN wrote: What do you mean by “in background”?   If you wi

Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] Window doesn't appear until code has finished

2008-04-23 Thread Ilya BANDORIN
What do you mean by "in background"? If you wish to perform some tasks "in background" while user sees login window, enters his login/pass, etc - I think the only way is to create a multithreaded application. But if you just want to create/show window and then perform some extra code, you c

[perl-win32-gui-users] Window doesn't appear until code has finished

2008-04-23 Thread Brian Rowlands (Greymouth High School)
I'm writing a login gui in perl and I've got a mental block: I've created my gui: my $main = Win32::GUI::Window->new( -name => 'Main', -width => 600, -height => 400, -text => 'GHS Login', -sizable=> 0, -hasminimize => 0, -hasmaximize=>