I don't believe you can lose that pesky console window (yet). But can at
least minimize it on the start of your program with
($DOShwnd, $DOShinstance) = GUI::GetPerlWindow();
GUI::CloseWindow($DOShwnd);
I've only made one full app so far with Win32::GUI (some half done), which
does some text ciphering/deciphering.
Cheers,
Kevin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, September 26, 1998 5:26 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [perl-win32-gui] Where's Aldo?
>
>
> Ok, I was going to wait for Aldo to subscribe to this mailing
> list, but he seems to be a little slow on the weekends, so
> we'll have to start without him.
>
> Currently we have 8 list members subscribed, including myself.
>
> A little about me- I am a not a perl expert by any means...I know
> enough to be dangerous, but am still learning. Most of what I have
> done in the past is just CGI related, but when I came across
> Win32::GUI
> I knew this was something that deserved further attention and
> development.
>
> I REALLY like the concept of making GUI Windows apps using a
> language I
> already feel comfortable with, instead of having to learn
> some other company's
> proprietary language.
> This could be really big. I doubt we'll see Visual Perl++
> come out anytime soon,
> but right now this is the next best thing :)
>
> Here's my formula for creating a windows app I can share with
> friends who don't
> have perl.
>
> 1. Design the GUI in Visual Basic and use frm2pl.pl to
> convert it to Perl::Win32
> syntax. This is unfortunately an expensive route for people
> spoiled by getting
> the latest perl distribution for free... Does anyone have
> another method of
> designing their GUI that is easy and cheap, for people that
> don't happen to have
> an old copy of Visual Basic lying around?
>
> 2. Once the script works, how do you lose that pesky console
> window? I haven't
> found any way to do it, except in compiling (if you go that route)
>
> 3. Use perl2exe (from
http://www.demobuilder.com/perl2exe.htm) to compile the
script into a working executable. If you compile with the -gui option it
will
not run a console window. I suspect there ought to
be a way to do this without compiling. Anyway, at this point the app can be
distributed. But- the next catch is, perl2exe is also an expensive program
(I
think $149 is pretty expensive for a single command-line app). The lite
version
still costs $49 and doesn't allow -gui compilation. sigh....
Also, when I ran the trial-version compiled program on another computer it
bombed the perl.dll when it tried to display the little nagware message at
close. So I guess that makes it crashware?
It would be very nice if someone out there who knows a little C++ would make
a
program similar to perl2exe and distribute it in the public domain. Not
wanting
to make the author of perl2exe go broke, but c'mon, $149 for a command line
app
with a single function? If perl2exe is worth $149 that means perl must be
worth
thousands...
Ok, enough ranting, has anyone made anything really cool yet using
Win32::GUI?
-Joe
