> > > 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. >
Another option is to package the splash screen script as a module. _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
