Well with your code outline, I can see a problem with using backticks. What will happen, is when you open your window and start your progressbar, things will run fine until you run the backticked program. At that point, the GUI will stop updating (freeze)as the backtick is run. SO.... you have some options.

1. Run the backticked program in a thread, and signal back to the main GUI when it is done, through a shared variable, or a return value.

2. If the dhcp client puts out debug information, while it is searching, you can use a "piped open" instead of backticks, and use select or fileevent on the filehandle, and that select callback can be used to update the gui, or tell it when to quit.

3. You could run the Gtk activity mode progressbar in it's own separate thread. You would have a main script, which starts a thread with the mindless activity indicator going , then run the backticked program from the main script, and the line after it, kill and join the indicator thread.

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In reply to Re: Graphical User Interface && Perl by zentara
in thread Graphical User Interface && Perl by turo

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