in reply to Re^2: perl/tk show script progress
in thread perl/tk show script progress

yet I want a perk/tk gui window and within the window or a tab show a textarea type box where my second perl script will run.

See Tk::ExecuteCommand. Here is an example:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w use Tk; use Tk::ExecuteCommand; use Tk::widgets qw/LabEntry/; use strict; my $mw = MainWindow->new; my $ec = $mw->ExecuteCommand( -command => '', -entryWidth => 50, -height => 10, -label => '', -text => 'Execute', )->pack; $ec->configure(-command => 'date; sleep 10; date'); my $button = $mw->Button(-text =>'Do_it', -background =>'hotpink', -command => sub{ $ec->execute_command }, )->pack; MainLoop;

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