Re: watch a child

2004-02-06 Thread Sam Schinke
Hello joachim, I had to deal with this issue for a program I spend some time developing for (POPFile). The "platform compatible" way to do this, as far as I was able to determine is as follows (and according to the following constraints and "features"): Constraint 1) "select"

RE: Perl Certifications ??

2004-02-06 Thread Chris Snyder
Bharucha, Nikhil wrote: --- snip --- PERL is kind of a jack-of-all trades language. It is a scripting language. In business environments (where certification means something) PERL is not the primary development language at the Enterprise level. It is an extremely versatile "Tool" to get small an

RE: Perl Certifications ??

2004-02-06 Thread Bharucha, Nikhil
PERL is kind of a jack-of-all trades language. It is a scripting language. In business environments (where certification means something) PERL is not the primary development language at the Enterprise level. It is an extremely versatile "Tool" to get small and medium sized jobs done and done rig

RE: Query On Grep

2004-02-06 Thread Peter Eisengrein
Title: RE: Query On Grep you're absolutely right. That's what I get for coding without thinking. :-) > -Original Message- > From: Rhesa Rozendaal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 6:42 PM > To: Peter Eisengrein; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Query On

RE: Perl Certifications ??

2004-02-06 Thread Chris Snyder
Title: Re: Exe2perl - the C version Savinder Puri wrote: --- snip --- Hello All,   Are there any *recognised* Perl certifications available... something along the lines of (shall i dare say!!) MCSE etc ??   Any links would be a great help.   Thanks, Savinder.--- snip ---   Not really.  Not

Re: Unusual Tk question.

2004-02-06 Thread Joe Youngquist
Not to create a flame war on the best GUI tool kit to use, but are you stuck to using only Tk? If not, then take a look at wxPerl (http://wxperl.sourceforge.net/) you can tie output to a log window pretty easily... - Original Message - From: "Beckett Richard-qswi266" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: passing list to a function

2004-02-06 Thread Richard Morse
On 05 Feb 2004, at 03:52 PM, jtownsen wrote: Let's say I'm calling a function and passing some stuff: some_function(@array, $var1, $var2); In the function, I want to assign the array and variables to an array and variables local to the function. Something like this: sub some_function {

RE: Unusual Tk question.

2004-02-06 Thread Beckett Richard-qswi266
Ah! Got it, thanks to all those who helped. I'd just got into the habit of withdrawing the main window straight after creating it, for exactly the reason that I don't want to do that this time (if you see what I mean!). Thanks again, I'll take the 2x4 to myself ;-) R. > -Original Message---

RE: Unusual Tk question.

2004-02-06 Thread Grakowsky, Richard \(ETS: Communications and Network Services\)
I've done this before by using a global as the handle for the widget, then throughout the rest of the script sending updates to the widget as it progresses. Here's a snippet Create the widget... $gInfo = $gMain->Scrolled("Text")->pack; $gInfo->configure(-background => 'grey'); $gInfo->yview(

Unusual Tk question.

2004-02-06 Thread Beckett Richard-qswi266
Guys, I find myself in a slightly tricky, and possibly unusual situation. I have been handed a GUI, written in Delhpi. I have a button that collects some parameters, then fires off my perl script. Now, I want to use Tk and open up a window with a Text widget in it that reports the progress of th

RE: Win32::OLE Excel: TypeName

2004-02-06 Thread Nick Djurovich
> Hi, > > does soemone know how I can get the type of an Excel-Sheet > via perl. I have to know whether a Sheet is a 'Chart' or a > 'Worksheet'. > > In Visual Basic there is The 'TypeName'-Function. But I > don't get this Function to call from my perl > > Cheers > Armin Hi Armin, If you us

Win32::OLE Excel: TypeName

2004-02-06 Thread armin . nolte
Hi, does soemone know how I can get the type of an Excel-Sheet via perl. I have to know whether a Sheet is a 'Chart' or a 'Worksheet'. In Visual Basic there is The 'TypeName'-Function. But I don't get this Function to call from my perl Cheers Armin

Re: watch a child

2004-02-06 Thread $Bill Luebkert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hallo all > > I have: >Windows NT and Windows 2000 >with Perl 5.6.1 build 635 > > I want: >watch a child: > - I make this child > - the child give Information to his parent every 10 seconds > - the parent is waiting for maximal 15 secon

Perl Certifications ??

2004-02-06 Thread Savinder Puri
Title: Re: Exe2perl - the C version Hello All, Are there any *recognised* Perl certifications available... something along the lines of (shall i dare say!!) MCSE etc ?? Any links would be a great help. Thanks, Savinder.