> 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).
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