Thanks, but I'm already able to do this easily with the aforementioned code, and BTW I'm using Tk, not win32::gui. I appreciate the reply though.

Maybe I should clarify some more. I'm able to remove the console DOS window with this above code, but when you do that it appears to wreak havoc with the IPC::Open2 function that wants to communicate to the child process on the child process's STDIN. I assume this is because removing the DOS console removes the connnection to both STDIN and STDOUT of the parent. What really confuses me though is that I'm not really trying to use STDOUT on the parent. I thought I was just using a filehandle and only the child process has to have STDIN.

Justin Eltoft

"If at all god's gaze upon us falls, its with a mischievous grin, look at him" -- Dave Matthews

In reply to Re: Re: IPC::Open2, Tk, and DOS window by Eradicatore
in thread IPC::Open2, Tk, and DOS window by Eradicatore

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.