Hi,
I've written a Perl service which to help monitor an application. On
discovering an issue it is to bring up an Internet explorer window with a link
to a particular site. Everything works perfectly, except that the Internet
explorer window is not visable!
The service starts Internet explorer with no problems (ie it is visable in the
task manager), it's almost like because it is running as a service, child
process's created from it are inheriting it's "windowless" state. I can take
the same code, strip it out and run it from a cmd prompt and it works no
problem. It only has an issue when created as a service.
Here is the basic code used:
use strict;
use warnings;
use Win32;
use Win32::Process;
my $prog="C://Program Files//Internet Explorer//iexplore.exe";
my $site="http://www.google.com";;
Win32::Process::Create($ProcessObj,"$prog","
$site",0,NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS,".");
Again, this works as a script that can run from the cmd line but the same code
will not work when generated as a service (obviously more code then this to
generate a service, I can supply code for review if someone is interested, the
call to initiate IE is the same though).
Has anyone run accross this problem before or know where I might get more info
so I can get my Internet explorer window to display?
I'm using perl v5.8.0 on Win w2k +sp4 and creating the sevice using the
activestate dev kit (5.3.0).
J
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