RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] PerlApp issue

2005-12-30 Thread Jeremy White
For the Win32::GUI guirus (spelling intended:-)), is Win32::GUI thread safe? I'm not a guru, but if you want a rough answer: Yes, Win32::GUI is thread safe. Well, sort off:) Rob May and I have had an exchange of emails about how to make Win32::GUI thread programming easier, after some testing

RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] PerlApp issue

2005-12-30 Thread Glenn W Munroe
Jez, For a "rough" answer, that was very useful and interesting! These little demo scripts are a goldmine of information. I have been using threads to carry out background work while updating a progress bar in the main window and providing a cancel button. It will be interesting to see Rob's inter

RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] PerlApp issue

2005-12-30 Thread Jeremy White
For a "rough" answer, that was very useful and interesting! These little demo scripts are a goldmine of information. I have been using threads to carry out background work while updating a progress bar in the main window and providing a cancel button. It will be interesting to see Rob's inter-thre

Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] PerlApp issue

2005-12-30 Thread Emmanuel E
Rob's work sounds cool! About the threads exiting issue this is what the manual page says: - WARNINGS A thread exited while %d other threads were still running A thread (not necessarily the main thread) exited while there were still other threads running. Usually it's a good idea

RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] Button bitmap and icons

2005-12-30 Thread Joseph . Vieira
I figured out how to get the image when referencing an actual '.ico' file, just specify the path of the file in new Win32::GUI::Icon. But how do you get it from a dll or exe file? Joe Joseph Vieira CIO IT Support FUJITSU CONSULTING Phone:(732) 549-4100 ext (8657) Email: [EMAIL PROT

RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] Button bitmap and icons

2005-12-30 Thread Ariel Serbin
there are programs that can extract the icons from the system dlls. check out this link: http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/VB/Utilities/Icon_Extractor/article.asp and this link: http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/VB/Utilities/Bitmap_Extractor/article.asp on a related note, i have always thought

RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] PerlApp issue

2005-12-30 Thread Glenn W Munroe
Emmanuel, I think you're right: something isn't quite right about the detach method. In Jez's example, there doesn't seem to be any difference if you comment out the call to the method or not. A couple of other lines from the manual: "If the program exits without all other threads having been ei

[perl-win32-gui-users] PerlApp Issue

2005-12-30 Thread Igor Anufriyenko
Hello, I have found some answers and code samples in groups's archive. Running two worker queues - one for command evals and the other for keeping return values worked like a charm. Originally posted by Johan Lindstrom and Blair Sutton. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=10734