Re: Blocking GUI

[Kevin Ryde <user42 zip com au>]

"Salvatore De Paolis" <iwkse-ml gmx com> writes:
> The only issue is, the image i'm going to set is an animated gif and the
> animation is not visible but just the static picture.

That'll be doomed if you've gone away blocked doing something else.
Another way is to change the mouse to a "watch" cursor to show you're
busy (gratuitous plug for my Gtk2::Ex::WidgetCursor here :-).

If you're doing http fetches then there's a couple of ways to go asynch.
I tried POE::Component::Client::HTTP which is not bad if you don't mind
learning some POE (eg. examples/poe-yahoo-quotes.pl in my
Gtk2-Ex-TickerView).  AnyEvent::HTTP looks promising as a
main-loop-agnostic thing.  Otherwise all the usual ways of running LWP
in a sub-process, which makes the fetching code easier, but
communicating progress and results back to the gui harder.