in reply to Launching GUI applications

There are two ways of doing this:

1. By using a system call to the executable "C:/Program Files/My Program/program.exe", and using either a system() or back-ticks to execute it, or
2. Using the Win32::OLE module to launch your application.

To be honest, though, maybe you should have looked through the Tutorials or even just searched the site?

Hope this helps....

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Re^2: Launching GUI applications
by cdarke (Prior) on Sep 25, 2006 at 08:56 UTC
    TMTTWTDO (There's More Than Two Ways To Do It). The Win32 API CreateProcess is the underlying mechanism, which is exposed by (amoung others) Win32::Process, which is in the ActiveState base. See also Win32::FetchCommand (CPAN).
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