Hi oh wize ones,

I have a question about perl Tk (perl 561, tk800.024).
I want to make a radio player that runs mplayer url sites from a mysql database. I have already made the framework, and I am able to do almost everything. One thing I still cannot do is this:

I open a MainWindow/TopLevel with all the possible stored radio urls from mysql. Than I click on one and this starts mplayer.To do this I launch mplayer with a fork + exec. And in the mean time, I open a new TopLevel just a button that the specific radio is playing.

Now my question: When the mplayer command exits or abords, the TopLevel button still shows running as I run mplayer with an exec, and there is no feedback to the Tk window.

How can I deal with this?

Is there a Tk module that allows one to fork a new process (with system or exec or whatever) and that shows in the mean time a window it is running, and closes the window when it is finnished. It would even be nice to have a kill method to?

I looked at Tk::IO etc.. But I have no clue how to use it.

I hope my question is clear enough.
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Dr. Mark Ceulemans
Senior Consultant
IT Masters, Belgium

In reply to tk player with system/exec by mce

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