According to Klaus Weidner, > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 10:57:50PM -0800, Tony Godshall wrote: > > Maybe I'll invest some time porting the apps I like to the > > small screen. I don't really need that many real pda apps, > > and the apps I used to really want don't seem to exist yet > > (a plaintext quick-search index card thing like InfoSelect > > was before it became a tree-structured database monster back > > when I used to run it on my on-in-two-seconds Windows-3.1+ > > -in-ROM HP Omnibook-300 back in the day. > > > > What do you recommend for something like that? Mono/dot-GNU? > > (snicker. snicker? hmmm. They want me to learn C# for work...) > > How about running the Windows 3.1 InfoSelect inside Bochs ;-) > > On a more serious note, I've experimented with the Perl GTK bindings (see > attachment) which is okay, the startup time isn't great though since it > recompiles the large included files each time. Maybe something > persistently compiled would work out better, I've experimented with clisp > and gtk-server but haven't spent much time on it. > > -Klaus > > #!/usr/bin/env perl > > use Gtk; > > use strict; > $^W=1; # use warnings;
Looks interesting. Does it perform OK once it has started? If so, I'll look into it. I saw that perl had a flag for persistently caching its compiled binaries someplace... I'll have to track it down... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
