Hi, I hope this is the right mailing list to send this to ... I've recently started to use PAR to package my bioinformatics application PerlPrimer (http://perlprimer.sf.net) - I must say I was amazed at how well it works: the ability to create a stand-alone executable that runs on any Windows system that I've tried it on, without Perl being installed, is just fantastic! However, I have noticed that when created with the --gui flag option, the application can no longer received STDOUT from other programs that are run within the script (which is something that I utilise in PerlPrimer). I don't know whether this is a bug with PAR, ActivePerl or Windows, but I was wondering if anyone could provide me with some more information about this - i.e. is it possible to create a GUI application without a "dos box" that can still gather STDOUT from other programs? Or if not, has anyone thought about an option to automatically minimize the dos box when run, a la ActivePerl when running a Perl/Tk script? Or even to hide the window completely, so that end users (who generally seem to get scared by terminal windows :) are never aware of its presence?
Another small bug I've noticed under Windows is that executables produced with PAR on a system with ActivePerl 5.8.3 die early in execution (and without any error message printed) when run on a system with an earlier version of ActivePerl (e.g. 5.8.0) installed. This can be a bit disconcerting! I'm not exactly sure whether this is a "design feature" (i.e. using a local version of Perl if it exists, rather than that compressed in the stand-alone executable) or a bug, but it does seem to cause problems! Many thanks again for PAR, Regards, Owen -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Does exactly what it says on the tin
