Hello, I'm having a problem tying Windows console output (stdout, stderr, etc.) to my GUI textfield. My GUI is built with The GUI Loft and looks like so: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9272296/gui.jpg Currently I am using the below trick to get console printouts to my bottom output window: 
package Tie::Textfield;                        
                                             
sub TIEHANDLE {                              
    my ($class, $control) = @_;              
    bless { control => $control }, $class;    
    }                                        
                                             
sub PRINT {                                  
    my ($self, $text) = @_;                  
    $self->{'control'}->{'-text'} .= $text;  
    }

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I click the button to start the script once all 4 inputs are there. 
sub ::btnButton1_Click {
 defined(my $win = $Win32::GUI::Loft::window{main}) or return(1);
# the main script action goes here
return(1);
 }

##############################################
my $fileWindow = "test.gld";         
my $objDesign = Win32::GUI::Loft::Design->newLoad($fileWindow) or
                die("Could not open window file ($fileWindow)");
$main = $objDesign->buildWindow() or die("Could not build window ($fil
+eWindow)");
##############################################
tie *STDOUT, 'Tie::Textfield', $main->tfoutput;


$main->Show();
Win32::GUI::Dialog();

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It works fine but the actual output appears only after the whole script has completed and for the duration of it the button is inactive -- which is the behavior I kind of expected but not the behavior I want. I would like the output appear real time, line by line, like in an actual console window. Plus, I am going to use some external commandline programs like pscp.exe and would want the output from those as well. I'll be grateful for your thoughts on this.

In reply to Win32::GUI, GUI::Loft and redirecting console output by maskull

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