Bill, the IPC looks like the best way to go, short of writing a .pm. Does the child process have to be set up in any special way, like with functions in order to receive the write handles?
MJG --- $Bill Luebkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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) > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
