Anybody making Windows interfaces w/ Perl?

[John]

The sample below makes a simple message box in MS Windows. The rest of the
Win32 and Win32API modules includes handy interfaces to the OS, but no other
GUI objects like the message box (e.g., radio boxes, pull-down menus,
fill-in forms, etc.). Or am I missing something?

I am about to install and learn Visual C++ 6 and want to make sure I'm not
wasting my time. I would prefer to keep everything pure Perl if possible.

[Aside: I think the TCL stuff for Perl on Unix making GUIs on X
Windows --is that right?]

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### This was done in Active Perl 5.006001 ####
use Win32;

# display a message box with an exclamation mark and an 'OK' button
MsgBox("Test", "This is a test", 48);

exit 0;

sub MsgBox {
my ($caption, $message, $icon_buttons) = @_;
my @return = qw/- Ok Cancel Abort Retry Ignore Yes No/;
my $result = Win32::MsgBox($message, $icon_buttons, $caption);
return $return[$result];
}

[Damian James]

On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 05:59:53 GMT, John said:

>The sample below makes a simple message box in MS Windows. The rest of the
>Win32 and Win32API modules includes handy interfaces to the OS, but no other
>GUI objects like the message box (e.g., radio boxes, pull-down menus,
>fill-in forms, etc.). Or am I missing something?

Off the top of my head:

Tk (on CPAN)
Win32::GUI (on CPAN)
WxPerl ( [url]http://wxperl.sourceforge.net[/url] )

and you might be interested in:

GUI Loft ( [url]http://www.bahnhof.se/~johanl/perl/Loft[/url] )

>I am about to install and learn Visual C++ 6 and want to make sure I'm not
>wasting my time. I would prefer to keep everything pure Perl if possible.
>
>[Aside: I think the TCL stuff for Perl on Unix making GUIs on X
>Windows --is that right?]

That would be Tk.

--damian

[Alan C.]

"John" <SeeMessageBody@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> The sample below makes a simple message box in MS Windows. The rest of

the

> Win32 and Win32API modules includes handy interfaces to the OS, but no

other

> GUI objects like the message box (e.g., radio boxes, pull-down menus,
> fill-in forms, etc.). Or am I missing something?

perldoc tk

on my Win machine with Activestate Perl 5.6.1 build 633 brings up docs for
the TK module.

widget

when typed and entered on my command line brings up a widget demo which
include at least some if not all of what you say is not in those Perl
modules that you mentioned.

>
> I am about to install and learn Visual C++ 6 and want to make sure I'm not
> wasting my time. I would prefer to keep everything pure Perl if possible.

I'm unfamiliar if there exists any capability differences between those two;
so, no comment.

<snip>

> ### This was done in Active Perl 5.006001

####
<snipped the mentioned sample>

I mentioned some native things in the version of Perl on my Win.

--
Alan.

[Helgi Briem]

On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 05:59:53 GMT, "John" <SeeMessageBody@nospam.com>
wrote:

>The sample below makes a simple message box in MS Windows. The rest of the
>Win32 and Win32API modules includes handy interfaces to the OS, but no other
>GUI objects like the message box (e.g., radio boxes, pull-down menus,
>fill-in forms, etc.). Or am I missing something?
>
>I am about to install and learn Visual C++ 6 and want to make sure I'm not
>wasting my time. I would prefer to keep everything pure Perl if possible.

Use Perl/Tk then.

[John]

John:

> > fill-in forms, etc.). Or am I missing something?

"Alan C.":

> perldoc tk

Yep, I sure *was* missing something! :^)

> widget

Cool. Tk has kind of a funky look and feel, like a Java GUI, but it'll do.
I may be looking for a book on Tk soon.