run system command in separate process in tk

benlaw has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

hi monks!
recently, i writing a tk program which run a system command when click on the a button...
but it seems not run in a separate process, when a run (in win32) ---- {system 'notepad'};
then i can't use my parent widget....
(i don't know how to explain who i c, so upload here) http://benlaw.netfirms.com/pw/

thx a lot :)

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(crazyinsomniac) Re: run system command in separate process in tk
by crazyinsomniac (Prior) on Apr 18, 2002 at 06:21 UTC

What's probably going on is that you're using system to open up notepad ... consider these oneliners

perl -e"system('notepad');"
perl -e"exec('notepad');"
perl -e"`notepad`;"
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Re: (crazyinsomniac) Re: run system command in separate process in tk

by benlaw (Scribe) on Apr 18, 2002 at 07:04 UTC

http://benlaw.netfirms.com/pw/tt.pl.txt

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