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in thread Tk gui bug

Are you on MS Windows? Fileevent dosn't work on pipes on win32. Otherwise it should work. See Perl/Tk App and Interprocess Communication You might have to use a thread or sockets if you are on windows.
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Re^12: Tk gui bug
by honyok (Sexton) on Feb 06, 2009 at 16:21 UTC
    I'm using ssh through cygwin to Linux machines. I'm also trying VNC which at least pops up a blank window.
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Re^12: Tk gui bug
by honyok (Sexton) on Feb 06, 2009 at 16:27 UTC
    AAaaaaaaaaaaargggggghhhhhh!!!!!!!! Forget external programs, what about piping STDOUT and STDERR from a shell script initiated from the GUI. HELP!
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