> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keary Suska [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 3:19 PM
> To: MacPerl List
> Subject: Re: [MacPerl] INTRO Thingy
>
>
> on 3/11/02 3:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] purportedly said:
>
> > WEB ACCESS
> > - is there any way to have a script in any form from HTML
> call AppleScript??
>
> Not exactly, but I think you can create mac-based CGI's which
> can be used
> with the personal web sharing on Mac. The archives should
> have loads of info
> on this, and I think the MacPerl book also addresses this.
I guess this cannot be helped, but it's ok. On Windoze,
I can make scripts through either JScript or VBScript that
can tell programs like Office to autocreate stuff. For
example, view a table, and click on a button that generates
an Excel spreadsheet.
I think CGI programming on the Macintosh can be fun. Perhaps
I'll explore some of this, but given that the older OS is
slooow and CGI is slooooow, this is one of those moments I'll
say reboot to OS-X and use Apache and Darwin-Perl. Though,
I doubt the functionality for AppleEvents would be there
> Alternatively, the CGI module is Mac-friendly and has a
> feature where you
> can manually enter form data to a script and the script will
> treat it as if
> it was posted through a form.
>
[snip thanx:]
> > DBI
> > - is this even feasible on the Mac OS Classic??
>
> Yes and no. DBI is ported, but if you want to use a database
> system, I don't
> know of any DBD's that are ported to Mac (even though some
> could be). There
> is a proxy module that allows you to use "proxy" to a host
> that has the
> proper DBD's, which I think is included in the DBI bundle.
That's pretty bad. The Mac does have some sort of ODBC from
Merant. Though when I tried to even connect to an Oracle
server (which works from UNIX and Win), from the ODBC drivers
I was out of luck. I don't know if Merant even cares. :-(
I guess someone would have to port the FreeTDS stuff to the
Mac for Syb/MS-SQL access. And Oracle apparently maintains
Oracle interface on the Mac, but I don't know how to get it.
Of course there's FileMaker, but that'll be sloooooooooow.
Lastly there's OpenLink.
I found some links, if anyone's curious. Perhaps DBI can
be adapted to these interfaces, or even better, take the
windows module of ODBC and implement an interface to the
Mac... Any takers... :-)
http://www.macsos.com.au/MacODBC/
http://www.rtlabs.com/macsql/
http://macintouch.com/odbc2.html
http://www.macslash.com/AskMacSlash/02/03/08/1818237.shtml
http://www.freetds.org/
http://www.iodbc.org/
ftp://www.openlinksw.com/open41/mmkozzzz.hqx (MacOS iODBC SDK)
http://www.versiontracker.com/redir.fcgi/kind=1&db=mac&id=13529/Mac-ODBCSDK.
sit (MacOS ODBC SDK)
> > Perl/Tk
> > - Does this work on the Macintosh?
>
> Not sure. There is a TCL/Tk port, but I have never used it.
>
> > - Is there support for some sort of Aqua/Tk?
>
> if you are running OS X, then you don't have to be concerned
> about any of
> the mac compatibility issues. That is your bet bet if it is
> available and
> you are developing for *nix/web.
But Aqua is much more cooler than old hokey X-Windows stuff
with clunky Motif stone-age buttons.
[snip thanx ;-]
Thanx for the help.
