Hello all, I have written a perl::tk script and I'm having some problems with one (relatively minor) portion of it. The app browses through a bunch of text files and looks for anything that starts with http://, if it finds it, it will add the line to a new Toplevel listwindow. On click of that line, I want to launch IE and go to the link that was found. This is all working fine, the problem occurs when you click a second link while the first launched instance of IE is still up (regardless of what else you have done in the meantime - typically have killed the toplevel window. At that point, the app hangs until you close IE. Then it proceeds to go ahead and launch a new instance of IE with the second clicked on link. Here's the code snippet..

sub launchie{
    $link = $linklistbox->get($linklistbox->curselection());
    open (IE,"|c:/progra~1/intern~1/iexplore.exe $link") || die "Could
+ not open $link $1";
    }

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So, what have I done wrong?

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