I have the following code which I created because the Excel.Application.SendKeys method didn't work for me. It just did nothing honestly.

#!/Perl/bin/perl -w

require Win32::OLE;
require Win32::OLE::Const;

use Tk;
use strict;

use constant{TRUE  => -1,
         FALSE => 0};
    
    
my $filename;    
         
my $tk_win = MainWindow->new;

my $name_entry = $tk_win->Entry->pack;

$tk_win->Button(-text=>'Prepare It!',
        -command=>\&getFilename)->pack;

&Tk::MainLoop;

#Returns the entry
sub getFilename
{
    $filename = $name_entry->get;
    exit;
}

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I want the user to specify a filename via a Tk window (mainly so they don't have to use the 'scary' command line) and then have the Tk window jump out of &Tk::MainLoop and let the rest of the script continue.

If you have any idea how to accomplish this or how I can get Excel.Application.SendKeys to work I would greatly appreciate your input

In reply to Quit Tk but continue with script... is it possible? by Grygonos

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