Add Reconnect button

[choroba]

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[choroba]

Sometimes, the communication thread dies - e.g. when the network disconnects, or when invalid unicode characters appear in the output (why?). Make it possible to start a new thread instead, maybe even restart it automatically after it dies.

[LorenzoTa]

hi choroba,

with my limited understanding there is no need to 'reconnect': the logged in state remains true even after parse errors. During the usage of the previous version (but considerations seem to me still valid) I collected various failures. You proposed a try::tiny blocks around connection/parsing iirc.

Here errors I received in the past (note that i always use MCE but i think this is unrelated):

1) connection errors:

Hobo -4644 terminated abnormally: reason Error GETing http://www.perlmonks.org/bare/?node_id=15848&prior_to=542568456: C
an't connect to www.perlmonks.org:80 (timeout) at pmchatTk06.pl line 167

and

Hobo -4780 terminated abnormally: reason Error GETinghttp://www.perlmonks.org/bare/?node_id=15848: Status read failed:
Connessione in corso interrotta forzatamente dall'host remoto. at pmchatTk06.pl line 167

2) parser and decode errors:

Hobo -1340 terminated abnormally: reason :4: parser error : Extra content at the end of the document
</chatter><span class="error" style="color: #cc0000">Server Error (Error ID 7916
          ^

and

XS_Tk__Callback_Call error:Cannot decode string with wide characters at C:/ulisse/strawberry/perl/lib/Encode.pm line 176
, <$__ANONIO__> line 82931.

Tk::Error: Cannot decode string with wide characters at C:/ulisse/strawberry/perl/lib/Encode.pm line 176, <$__ANONIO__>
line 82931.
 Tk::After::repeat at C:/ulisse/strawberry/perl/site/lib/Tk/After.pm line 80
 [repeat,[{},after#72532,1000,repeat,[\&main::__ANON__]]]
 ("after" script)

and

UCS-2LE:code point "\x{1f3b5}" too high at C:/ulisse/strawberry/perl/site/lib/Tk.pm line 251, <$__ANONIO__> line 10549.
UCS-2LE:code point "\x{1f3b5}" too high at C:/ulisse/strawberry/perl/site/lib/Tk.pm line 251, <$__ANONIO__> line 10549.
UCS-2LE:code point "\x{1f3b5}" too high at C:/ulisse/strawberry/perl/site/lib/Tk.pm line 251, <$__ANONIO__> line 10549.
UCS-2LE:code point "\x{1f3b5}" too high at C:/ulisse/strawberry/perl/site/lib/Tk.pm line 424, <$__ANONIO__> line 10551.
Unable to free colormap, palette is still selected.

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.

and

Hobo -3548 terminated abnormally: reason :2: parser error : Extra content at the end of the document
<p>An error has occured.  The site administrators have been notified.  We thank
^

If I can help I'll be glad to contribute: maybe for the try::tiny stuffs as my unicode-fu is limited
thanks
L*

[choroba]

@LorenzoTa Thanks for the collection. Is a Hobo thread restarted automatically when it terminates? Perl threads aren't, so I need to start a new thread in the mentioned situation.

[LorenzoTa]

I dont think Hobo restarts automatically. but there is marioroy for details

[choroba]

Automatic restart of the worker thread was implemented in 61b89a0.

[choroba]

After recent fixes, the restart should be less frequent. The correct solution would be to create two threads, one for GUI and one for LWP, and have the main thread restart the LWP worker when it dies.