I was using Win32::GuiTest to automate a process I was doing manually. The script I was writing would open the application, navigate the menus, enter the data, and capture the text for me to get the results. It worked fine.

But then I needed to add a Tk interface to make it a little easier and user friendly for other people to use. For some reason, though, when I moved my program into a sub, that I had assigned as a command on a Tk Button, when it used the system("start foo.exe", foo.exe would freeze on it's start-up splash screen until the entire keypress routine was finished. As soon as the routine finished, boom, it would load up.

Without Tk, the program worked fine. It would call the program, the program would start, and it would press the right buttons. But when I bound it all inside Tk, suddenly the program decided it didn't really want to start until the routine was completely done it's Keypress routine.

Any ideas why this is happening, and how to get around it?

In reply to Tk Stopped a working program by bblustein

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