Re: Tk Stopped a working program

What?

decided it didn't really want to start until the routine was completely done it's Keypress routine.

So you have a tkapp with a button which when clicked invokes sub Bar?
Sub Bar does a system("start foo.exe") and runs a bunch of Win32::GuiTest code?
If that's the case, it's not likely to play well with Tk because your tkapp will be blocked until the subroutine returns (it's how it works ).

What you wanna do instead is system("start perl testFoo.pl") right after you system("start foo.exe")

put instructions into a an array called @BBAR, use Tk::after, and setup a callback which would iterate of @BBAR and ineffect be guitesting foo.exe.

You might also wanna checkout HWXperl - The place for GUI apps in Perl (http://sourceforge.net/projects/hwx).

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Re: Re: Tk Stopped a working program by bblustein (Beadle) on Apr 16, 2003 at 18:58 UTC
Thank you for your advice. Running the two system calls, first to foo.exe, and then to the other perl script, worked like a charm, and allows the rest of my Tk code to function while letting the foo.exe do it's stuff correctly. Thank you, Podmaster :)	[reply]