At 12:09 PM 10/20/00 -0700, you wrote:
>I wrote a little gui that, when I push a button it starts a process, which I
>run in the background. The problem is that the gui goes blank and is
unuseable
>until I kill the process manually that the button started. How can I set the
>command for the button so that it starts a background process and then
>immediately return control to the gui?
>
>...Mark
>_______________________________________________
Are you using the exec command?
If so, sounds like you need an & at the end of the command run
in the background. This works for me.
for example:
proc {chatu} {{pt 5000} {id xid}} {
exec wish chat.tcl "$pt" "$id" &
}
Eric
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