Perl-Gtk, DoEvents, Your thoughts?

["Matthew M. Shannon" <mmshann tampabay rr com>]

To all-


I've tried searching the archives a couple different ways to see if this 
has already been answered, if it has, I must not be using the correct 
terminology.

I've got a simple Perl-Gtk application that performs network (LWP) 
queries. My problem is whenever I make a Perl-Gtk call inside a 
subroutine that is performing the network queries, I find it doesn't get 
shown visibily until the entire subroutine ends.

Now I have tried moving the Perl-Gtk functions into their own sub , and 
calling them from there, however I still get the long pause while 
network activity is taking place.

In the Visual Basic world, you could use a DoEvents command to allow the 
system to handle events during long running loops. Is there something 
akin to this in the Perl-Gtk world? Perhaps I'm completely looking in 
the wrong place and need to consider forking the network activity?

Any thoughts you might have on the subject would be valuable.

Thanks!



Matt