Hi!

I don't work with Windows and I'm not a saint, but I do have a Perl Cookbook :-) The solution there is: Start your program through another Perl script. Here is the snippet: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# loader - starts Perl scripts without the annoying DOS window
use strict;
use Win32;
use Win32::Process;

# Create the process object.

Win32::Process::Create($Win32::Process::Create::ProcessObj,
    'C:/perl5/bin/perl.exe',            # Whereabouts of Perl
    'perl realprogram',                 #
    0,                                  # Don't inherit.
    DETACHED_PROCESS,                   #
    ".") or                             # current dir.
die print_error();

sub print_error() {
    return Win32::FormatMessage( Win32::GetLastError() );
}

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Regards, mawe

In reply to Re: Tk on Win32 - how to avoid background console window by mawe
in thread Tk on Win32 - how to avoid background console window by biochris

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