[perl-win32-gui-users] system call delayed?

I'm experiencing some odd behaviour with a win32::GUI app. I'm not sure if this is the best place to post, but I figured it would be a good start. I have an app that does scanning and document capture. The problem I'm experiencing is that when I click the scan button, everything executes up t

RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] system call delayed?

I'll include the handler and the scan function below, as both are relatively short. Note that in the DoSCAN function, the scan button (called $scan) is disabled right before the system call. When I click the button, it is immediately disabled. So I know it's getting to that point. But then

Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] system call delayed?

Thanks for the idea! That seems to be more responsive, except that the ShellExecute command doesn't block until Acquire exits. Is there a way to make this block? Scott - Original Message - From: "Jeremy White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Thursday, December 01

Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] system call delayed?

Thanks for the idea! That seems to be more responsive, except that the ShellExecute command doesn't block until Acquire exits. Is there a way to make this block? There should be - there are lots of options which aren't documented, have a google for ShellExecute for other environments, that s

[perl-win32-gui-users] Re: system call delayed?

I've not used it myself, but I'd take a look at Win32::Process (standard with ActiveState Perl), which has a Wait() method to allow you to wait for a process to finish. As an aside: ShellExecute() always returns once the process it is launching has started. ShellExecuteEx() can give you a hand