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

Dear Monks,

I am currently writing a little application that will control the replication of an Oracle database between EMC SANs. I'm in the early stages at the moment but things are going quite well so far :)

The code is being written to be compiled with PerlSvc and run as a Windows Service (yep - all Windows environment unfortunately). In the longer term, I will want to create a front end in Perl/Tk to control what's going on, get feedback etc.

Getting applications to talk to each other is something I haven't tried before. Is it IPC that I will need to use? If so, can someone point me in the direction of any kind of Idiot's Guide? Most of the stuff I have come across so far seems to be UNIX-based.

If IPC isn't likely to be the way forward for me, other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks ...... Pete

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Re: GUI talking to Windows Service??
by mce (Curate) on Dec 12, 2002 at 13:06 UTC
    Hi,

    start by reading the perldoc perlipc and perlwin32.

    On win32 it is indeed somewhat more difficult, so I suggest you get the book Win32 perl programming. There are modules like Win32::Pipe that should do the thing you want.
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    Dr. Mark Ceulemans
    Senior Consultant
    IT Masters, Belgium

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      Mark,

      Thanks for the suggestion. I'll get reading.

      How strange is it to get a reply from someone working for an ex-employer? Ah .... those were the days. lol

      Pete

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