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in reply to Re^3: Determine if a program in a different terminal has ended
in thread Determine if a program in a different terminal has ended

For demonstration, try this... I'm having trouble explaining my situation hehehehe
# myscript.pl # # script must be run in a terminal # use Gtk2 '-init'; my $window = Gtk2::Window->new(); $window->signal_connect( destroy => sub { exit } ); my $button = Gtk2::Button->new("click me to close"); $button->signal_connect('clicked'=> sub { exit } ); $window->add($button); $window->show_all(); Gtk2->main;

next is the main code
# main.pl # my $k = 0; while($k < 3){ system("gnome-terminal -e 'perl myscript.pl'"); $k++; }

if i ran main.pl it call the script 3x then ends... yet the first myscript.pl has not yet finished running... it waits for you to press the button... what i wanted to do is... open the 1st myscript.pl then wait for somebody to press it... then if somebody presses it, another myscript.pl would run again.. then so on..
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Re^5: Determine if a program in a different terminal has ended
by almut (Canon) on Sep 17, 2009 at 12:40 UTC

    Works for me as expected, i.e. the program waits util I click the close button in your GUI, then the next instance (of terminal and GUI) is started...   (in this particular case, a terminal wouldn't even be required)

    Do you in fact get three instances of the GUI running at the same time?

      Is one of you running on Windows, and one on *nix?

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        Just for the record, I'm on Linux.  Could someone running Windows try to see what happens?