Jim Hansen wrote: > I have two small .pl programs I've written. One calls > the other with Win32::Process. The child program is > just a splash screen. When the parent is done with > its thing, I kill the child process. Works ok. What > I would like to do is create a status bar on the > splash. I have that done, but need to figure out how > to pass information to the child process. Has anyone > done this before? How would the child program listen > for the parameters?
There are many ways to do this - sockets, a disk file, shared memory, pipes, etc. You could use IPC::Open2/3 instead of Win32::Process and then you would be able to read/write to the child on the associated FHs. -- ,-/- __ _ _ $Bill Luebkert Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (_/ / ) // // DBE Collectibles Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] / ) /--< o // // Castle of Medieval Myth & Magic http://www.todbe.com/ -/-' /___/_<_</_</_ http://dbecoll.tripod.com/ (My Perl/Lakers stuff) _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
