Jeremy White wrote:
> Robert May wrote:
Is this a good thing to pursue? Suggestions for changes or
alternative approaches welcome. A better name for the script would be
good too!
Nice - with a good set of examples it would certainly show what
Win32-GUI is capable off.
Based on the feedback I'm going to have a go at completing this. I want
to do some more work on understanding Win32 Consoles - partly spurred on
by this effort, and partly spurred on by Steve Loughran's questions
about launching sub-processes on the users' list.
I'm thinking about a Win32::GUI::Console module that extends the
Win32::Console module (another of Aldo's creations), to wrap the things
that GUI apps might find useful when dealing with Consoles (I already
have something that I call Win32::GUI::Console that wraps a RichEdit
Control for use as pseudo Console).
Something like this:
- ability to close Console if there is one present and its not needed
- automatically re-create a console window if any reads/writes are done
on stdin/out/err
- ability to set the Console window title, Icon etc.
Eventually remove GetPerlWindow() from GUI.xs??
It'd be especially good if you could then use the module like
perl -MWin32::GUI::Console script.pl
to launch apps that weren't written with Console hiding in mind, and you
didn't know whether there would be console output of not; Additionally
wperl -MWin32::GUI::Console script.pl would provide a console if any
input or output was required, meaning that you wouldn't miss warnings etc.
Regards,
Rob.
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Robert May
Win32::GUI, a perl extension for native Win32 applications
http://perl-win32-gui.sourceforge.net/
