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Re: [perl #108470] Term::ReadLine should use AE instead of Tk forevent looping

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Joel Roth
Date:
January 19, 2012 10:13
Subject:
Re: [perl #108470] Term::ReadLine should use AE instead of Tk forevent looping
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20120119181304.GA16780@sprite
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:16:50PM -0700, Darin McBride wrote:
> On Wednesday January 18 2012 10:13:48 AM Joel Roth wrote:
> > > I'm curious as to how you would receive events registered wtih Event while
> > > T::RL is waiting for text, since T::RL is currently going to be spinning
> > > the Tk event loop, not the Event event loop, unless you have an idle
> > > callback registered with Tk that simply spins the Event loop once.
> > 
> > I use Event in a situation that the app runs without loaded
> > the Tk based GUI, to provide timers, etc. In that case,
> > tkRunning is not set.
> 
> Yeah, I'm very curious.  Are you running multi-threaded?  That should do it, 
> but otherwise, I can't figure it out.
> 
> > > In other words, as far as I can tell, today, T::RL will only spin a Tk
> > > loop. If Tk isn't loaded, it won't spin any loop, and all events will be
> > > on hold (with a possible exception of signal handlers) until the user
> > > hits enter.
> > I'm glad no one told *me* that! :-)
> > 
> > A T::RL based command prompt seems to run fine alongside
> > an Event event loop. I may be able to dig up some
> > test code to verify this FYI.
> 
> You've piqued my curiosity. :-)  Here's the test I've been running, it's as 
> simple as I can make it.  If you uncomment out the two tk lines and comment 
> out the Event line, it works.  But if you try to remove Tk, the timer doesn't 
> print out the elapsed time (or something approximating such) at the top of the 
> console, assuming ANSI escape sequences are being interpreted (I was too lazy 
> to do any other method of controlling the cursor as this one dates back to my 
> DOS 5.0 days).
> 
> I assume that if I moved the Event loop to one thread and the Tk loop (or 
> basically, T::RL without tk) to a separate thread from the Event loop, it'll 
> work.  But that now comes with all the joys and tribulations of 
> multithreading.  As opposed to the joys and tribulations of event programming.
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> use strict;
> use warnings;
> 
> use Event;
> #use Tk;
> use AnyEvent;
> use Term::ReadLine;
> 
> my $esc;
> BEGIN { $esc = "\x1b[";
>     print "${esc}2J${esc}3H";
> }
> 
> my $t    = 0;
> my $w    = AE::timer (0,1,sub {print "${esc}s${esc}1H$t s   ${esc}u";++$t});
> my $term = Term::ReadLine->new('...');
> #$term->tkRunning(1);
> 
> my $x = $term->readline('> ');
 

Hi,

While I don't have time this morning to get a working
test case, I find that when the app uses Event,
it runs Event::loop(), whereas when it uses Tk,
it *doesn't* run MainLoop(); tkRunning(1) somehow
substitutes for it.

Again, this is all using Terminal::ReadLine::Gnu,
which I found necessary to get the behaviors
I needed.

Sorry for the lack of specifics at the moment.

Regards,


-- 
Joel Roth

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