[Kde-perl] OT: Problems when dealing with perl threads....

[Ashley Winters]

Oh, and another oddball idea for you:

Run Qt in its own detached thread. I haven't tried it, but it might
work.

package main;
our $progress : shared;
threads->new(\&pacify_user);
rpmDbInit();
installBase('noscripts');

sub pacify_user {
    my $a = Qt::Application(\@ARGV);
    my $w = installProgressDlg;
    ...
}

Setup a 50ms timer in the GUI thread to check on the $progress variable
and update the user as to what's going on, or otherwise synchronize.

As long as you don't spawn a new thread from the GUI thread, you might
get away with it. :)

Even better, if there's still a segfault, I might be able to offer a
fix for it.

Ashley Winters


__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
http://mail.yahoo.com