Re: Is it possible to stop a signal callback?

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 10:00 +0800, Ye Wenbin wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 01:35:41 +0800, zentara <zentara1 sbcglobal net> wrote:
> 
> > Have you looked at
> > http://forgeftp.novell.com/gtk2-perl-study/download/
> > it will answer alot of questions.
> >
> I have read this document. It is really helpful.
> >
> > Don't use while(1) or sleep in a gui script, they cause malfunctions.
> 
> I did not use sleep to do some work periodly. I was trying to show the  
> signal
> callback will take a long time to finish. Maybe it need fork or using  
> thread. But
> the problem is I don't know how to communicate with subprocess. I will try
> to find it.

you should look at the Gtk2-Perl FAQ:

  http://live.gnome.org/GTK2-Perl/FrequentlyAskedQuestions

especially the 'How do I keep my GUI updating while doing a long file
read?' question.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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