Just thought I would post this, since it took me a while to figure out. I wanted to use perl2exe to create a perl windows exe that I could drag files onto. That's simple enough. Then I wanted to use perl/tk for the gui, and turn off the console. again, this is easy with the "-gui" option to perl2exe.

But then I wanted to use backticks to run a command and NOT have it show up a seperate window each time I ran a command (in this case metaflac.exe).

I finally found the answer here:

http://support.activestate.com/faq/suppress-console-windows-

Justin Eltoft

"If at all god's gaze upon us falls, its with a mischievous grin, look at him" -- Dave Matthews

Edited by planetscape - moved the main description text out of the signature block

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BEGIN {
    Win32::SetChildShowWindow(0) if defined &Win32::SetChildShowWindow
+;
}

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In reply to supressing console with perl2exe and backticks by Eradicatore

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