GUI and web open at the same time

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have a script A that is in GUI, and script B that is web-based.

How do I make script A and B execute at the same time with one click.

I tried combining both scriptAscritB.pl but it wouldn't work.

I also tried perl2exe scriptA.pl scriptB.pl but still wouldn't work.

Is there any other way?

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Re: GUI and web open at the same time by rjbs (Pilgrim) on Jul 14, 2004 at 18:17 UTC
Well, if Script B is web-based -- by which I assume you mean that it should be accessed via a web browser -- you can't just run it from the command line. I think the simplest thing would be to write a script that opens the web site and then runs the GUI app. This should be trivial with a shell script. `#!/bin/sh mozilla -remote "openURL(http://your.url.here/, new-tab)" /path/to/guiscript` [download] Since "perl2exe" suggests that you're on Win32, you probably want a batchfile like: `C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE http://YOUR.URL.HERE C:\Perl\Bin\Perl C:\your\gui\script` [download] rjbs	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: GUI and web open at the same time by Joost (Canon) on Jul 14, 2004 at 18:14 UTC
Well. You can, but it just doesn't make any sense: `# in script B: system("scriptA.pl &");` [download] or the other way around (which REALLY won't make sense). Maybe you'd better explain why you want to do this, as people might come up with a better solution. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply] [d/l]
Re: GUI and web open at the same time by McMahon (Chaplain) on Jul 14, 2004 at 18:14 UTC
Sounds like you're on Windows. You might consider Win32::GUITest-- it's not "one click", but it's very very close.	[reply]