I tried it using the open2 function, but for some reason the readhandle is empty. maybe i'm using it wrong, since the readhandle is empty perl hangs when i try to read from it. 
#!D:\perl\bin\

use IPC::Open2;

$flyprog = "d:\\perl\\fly\\fly.exe";

open2 (*BOY, *FLY, "$flyprog -q");

print FLY "new\n";
print FLY "size 256,256\n";
print FLY "fill 1,1,255,255,255\n";
print FLY "arc 128,128,180,180,0,360,0,0,0\n";
print FLY "fill 128,128,255,255,0\n";
print FLY "arc 128,128,120,120,0,180,0,0,0\n";
print FLY "arc 96,96,10,10,0,360,0,0,0\n";
print FLY "arc 160,96,10,10,0,360,0,0,0\n";
print FLY "fill 96,96,0,0,0\n";
print FLY "fill 160,96,0,0,0\n";
print FLY "string 0,0,0,10,240,giant,Hello, World!\n";
print FLY "string 0,0,0,100,10,medium,Don't worry, be Happy!\n";
close(FLY);

$output = <BOY>;
close(BOY);

print "Content-type: image/gif\n\n";
binmode(STDOUT);
print $output;

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It SHOULD work, but it doesn't for some reason. I must be doing something wrong.

In reply to Re: Re: Using FLY to print to STDOUT by chrono86
in thread Using FLY to print to STDOUT by chrono86

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