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Ryan Eatmon reatmon at ti.com
Thu Sep 23 10:58:56 CDT 1999


Quoting Thomas Carron:
> > I'm trying to write a Perl/Tk client and it's a little annoying not
> > knowing when to close the login window since there is not message
> > telling me that it's ok to do it.
> 
>   How are you handling polling, using Alert?

I'm using Tk::repeat.  The line is:

$GUI{jabber}->{processId} = 
  $GUI{top}->repeat(3500, sub { $jabber{client}->Process(0); });

That way the Tk app still has some CPU room to update the widgets, and
3.5 seconds is not a bad poll rate.

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Ryan Eatmon                reatmon at ti.com
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Mixed Signal Product Development EDA Team




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