Since you seem to be spinning your wheels on the console-based prompt function, why not make use of the fact that you're in a GUI environment, and make a Win32::GUI::DialogBox?

Add an entry to your tray, like 

$tray->setMenu (
        "> &Test" => sub { print "Hello from the Tray\n"; },
        "> &Dialog" => \&interact_using_dialog, 
        ">-"      => 0,
        "> E&xit" => sub { return -1 },
);

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then define the sub interact_using_dialog(), where it creates a new Win32::GUI::Dialog with the appropriate form entries, and on clicking OK in that Dialog, grab the values from the form and close the Dialog, sending the data on to whatever data structures you are trying to populate.

I would think that would be a faster debug path than continuing to play with trying to get console and GUI to mesh together properly.

edit: fix link to Win32::GUI::DialogBox

In reply to Re: Win32::SysTray Issue by pryrt
in thread Win32::SysTray Issue by PilotinControl

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