Thanks for all the info. I will play with it when I get home from work.

Had things happen with Tk, had things happen with Wx.

The window opens after the server gets a connection. The Window has to open and display the IP First.

And send the commands to the computer. I'm still stuck with "What to do instead of While"

#!/usr/bin/perl
package main;
use IO::Socket;
use Sys::Hostname;
use Socket;
use 5.008;
#use strict;
use Wx;
  use wxPerl::Constructors;
   use base 'Wx::App';
   use Wx qw(wxTE_MULTILINE wxVERTICAL wxID_DEFAULT);
#use warnings;
my($ipaddr)=inet_ntoa((gethostbyname(hostname))[4]);

$| = 1;
my $app = Demo::App->new;

$app->MainLoop;

package Demo::App;
#use strict;
#use warnings;
use base 'Wx::App';

sub OnInit {
    my $frame = Demo::App::Frame->new;
    $frame->Show(1);
}

package Demo::App::Frame;
#use strict;
#use warnings;
use Wx qw(:everything);
use base 'Wx::Frame';

sub new {
      
            #print "Ready for next command.\n\n";   
        
    my ($class) = @_;

    my $self = $class->SUPER::new(
        undef, -1,
        "X10 Voice Commander",
        wxDefaultPosition, wxDefaultSize,
    );
$self->{text} = Wx::TextCtrl->new($self, -1, "", [-1,-1], [300, 300], 
+wxTE_MULTILINE);
      $self->{text}->AppendText("Use Your IP $ipaddr:8087 on your devi
+ce.\n");
    #$self->{text}->AppendText("Connection from: ", $addr->peerhost(),
+"\n");
    #sub serv {
    $local = IO::Socket::INET->new(
                Proto     => 'tcp',             # protocol
                LocalAddr => "$ipaddr:8087",  
                             ) or die "$!";
    
my $addr;       
    $local->listen();       
$local->autoflush(1);  
while ($addr = $local->accept() ) {     
        print   "Connection from: ", $addr->peerhost(),"\n";  

        while (<$addr>) 
        {       
        $path = "C:/Program Files (x86)/Common Files/X10/Common";
        chdir($path) or die "Cant chdir to $path $!";
         ~s/GET//,~s/~/ /g,~s/%20/ /g,~s/%22/ /g,~s/x10command=DEVICE/
+/,~s/\//\ /g,~s/[?]//g ,~s/'/ /g,~s/HTTP/ /,~s/1.1/ /g,~s/sh://;
        
        system(AHCMD. "$_");
                print "Received: $_";   
                print $addr $_;        
                print $path $_;                        
                close $addr;
             chomp; 
     return $self;
   }  
          
}
 
}
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use IO::Socket;
use Sys::Hostname;
my($ipaddr)=inet_ntoa((gethostbyname(hostname))[4]);
$remote = IO::Socket::INET->new(
                Proto   => 'tcp',       # protocol
                PeerAddr=> "$ipaddr:8087",   
                PeerPort=> "8087",      # port of server
                Reuse   => 1,
                ) or die "$!";
print "Connected to ", $remote->peerhost, # Info message
      " on port: ", $remote->peerport, "\n";
$remote->autoflush(1);  # Send immediately

while (<>) {    # Get input from STDIN
        print  $remote  " "; print  $remote "sendplc ";
        print  $remote  $_;       # Send to Server
               #last if m/^end/gi;      # If 'end' then exit loop
        my $line = <$remote>;   # Receive echo from server
        if ($line ne $_) {      # If not the same as input
                #print "Error in sending output\n"; # error
                exit;           # Terminate
        }

print "End of client\n";        # End of client
close $remote;                  # Close socket

exit
}
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Have you seen Gtk2 server and client GUI's with root messaging? :-) It should work on Windows. Wx generally uses Gtk libs as a basis, so if you have Wx installed you can probably install Gtk2. See Installing Gtk2 using PPM on Windows and Install GTK2 for example.

But back to Wx:

I don't have Wx running, but looking at your server code, I see you did not get the previous point I was making about GUI eventloop code, and using sleep, system, while loops, select loops, or anything which interferes with the eventloop. Your code , as written, will just hang in the while loop, making the Wx eventloop freeze up. I don't even have to run it to see that.

You must use Wx::Socket to run sockets in Wx. Otherwise, you need to put all your while loops into a separate thread, and at your level of programming experience, I doubt you are up to that hassle. Go back and rewrite your code using the example code in Wx::Socket

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I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth.
Old Perl Programmer Haiku ................... flash japh

I tried many different ways to install Gtk2. It just won't install. I'll keep trying though.

I'll keep trying different things with Tk and Wx

I was also trying to figure out how to reform the server without the "while". I need the part after the While to complete the next step.

 while ($addr = $local->accept() ) {     
        print   "Connection from: ", $addr->peerhost(),"\n";
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I don't know what I can slip in instead of While.