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how to make permanent button

Posted by xramm (xramm), 4 March 2009
I am new GUIs and tried Perl/tk in HP UX environment, so I created little GUI and there are some buttons to call shell scripts, tcl, perl scripts. it is OK so far, only problem when I click on button the GUI dissapears, not remains to re-use.
code clause:

$window->title("UNIX Test World");
$window->configure(-background=>'#D2B48C');

$window->Label(-text => "PNM ServisNET Toolbar", -font=> "Helvetica -14 bold", -
background=> "#D2B48C")->pack;

$window->Button(-text => "IDLE Users for 5 Hours! ", -command => \&action1,)->pack;

---

MainLoop();


sub action1 {
 exec "/aydin/idles\n";
       }


Posted by KevinAD (KevinAD), 7 March 2009
exec replaces the perl program with whatever program you run. But not knowing what you are doing all I can suggest is look into open() or IPC::Cmd or IPC:pen2 or IPC:pen3 or maybe Tk (which I have no experience with) has functions/methods builtin that you can use.

Posted by admin (Graham Ellis), 7 March 2009
You may also want to run the command in backquotes - so that the result of running it gets returned into a variable which you can then process as you wish.

As Kevin says, exec replaces your existing program, so is indeed going to get rid of the GUI!

Posted by xramm (xramm), 9 March 2009
I solved my problem by replacing "exec" with "system". Thanks for your help.



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