A modern operating system contains, among other things, an immense amount of code for the purpose of managing the event-driven GUIs that most fancy-schmancy modern applications use for graphically interfacing with... well, users. Using Perl (or any other language I'm aware of) to interface with these system drivers and thus to control an application is like trying to figure out a way to do neurosurgery by mounting scalpels on several dirigibles and then building a radio-control system to use them to operate on a patient in an operating theater set up in the middle of a football stadium.

In other words, this sounds like an XY Problem. What do you really want to do?

Give a man a fish:  <%-{-{-{-<

In reply to Re: Executing external programs by AnomalousMonk
in thread Executing external programs by Silt

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