Hello All, Maybe someone out th 1

[luckydexte]

Hello All,

Maybe someone out there can help. I want to launch Internet Explorer passing it in argument. This opens IE and displays the site you passed as an argument. What I would like to do is launch IE with an argument and the process runs but the window does not open. There is C routine called CreateProcess which is called through the Windows API but I am not sure how to implement this in a Perl program. If anyone has any suggestions I would appreciate it.

Thanks,

Brandon

 

[goBoating]

This will spawn IE and open

http://www.perl.com.

There are several variations on the 'open a process' theme (backticks, system, pipes, exec).... the one you should use depends on what you are trying to do.

#!perl
chdir('C:/Program Files/Plus!/Microsoft Internet/');
$ie = 'IEXPLORE';
$page = '[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.perl.com';[/URL]
system($ie $page);

HTH


keep the rudder amid ship and beware the odd typo

 

[luckydexte]

Thanks goBoating. Do you know if I can run the system command to call iexplore, without the browser opening. It would kind of be like running a shell in the background, without the shell window opening. I need to run a perl script in a browser (because it has to be secure) but I do not want the browser to visible on the monitor. Hope this makes sense. If you have ideas please let me know.

And thanks again.

Brandon

 

[goBoating]

' sounds to me like you should go surf

http://www.cpan.org

and find a module that will let you emulate a browser, rather that trying to use a browser. The only way I know to crank up IE and have it minimized, is to make a short cut to it and call the short cut. But, you have to embed the page to open in the shortcut definition which removes a lot of your flexibility.

Sorry, I can't be more assistance.



keep the rudder amid ship and beware the odd typo