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Wrote a comprehensive Perl script, now I want to turn it into a Windows installable application.

majinserge
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Nov 13, 2010, 3:33 PM

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Wrote a comprehensive Perl script, now I want to turn it into a Windows installable application.	Can't Post

Hi everyone, this is my first post here, but I figure I'd post in the advanced section because of my experience with the language.

I have recently written a very comprehensive script, however I would like to take the idea of that script and turn it into a Windows application for fun and profit.

First of all - what are the good options for a GUI in perl? I'm looking for something that is reasonably skinable and can offer some basic things such as text boxes, images, event functions on mouse overs, etc

Second - once the gui is designed and functional, would it be possible to distribute the entire package (GUI, possibly a ActivePerl distribution, etc) as one installable package?

Or is my best bet to try and do this all with another language?

Thank you in advance

FishMonger
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Nov 13, 2010, 4:11 PM

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Re: [majinserge] Wrote a comprehensive Perl script, now I want to turn it into a Windows installable application. [In reply to]	Can't Post

There are several Perl GUI toolkits/frameworks.

See: perldoc -q gui

I've written a few Perl/Tk gui scripts a few years ago, but none since then.

It is possible to write a Perl gui install script that installs your perl app and package that script as a standalone executable.

Since you haven't given any details on your "comprehensive script" or your level of Perl knowledge, so I can't say for sure, but based on the limited info that you've given, I might recommend using a different language for your entire project. Such as Real Studio, which a cross platform language. http://www.realsoftware.com/realstudio/

majinserge
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Nov 13, 2010, 5:19 PM

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Re: [FishMonger] Wrote a comprehensive Perl script, now I want to turn it into a Windows installable application. [In reply to]	Can't Post

thanks for the heads up, I'll check out those toolkits.

My script logs into a site, maintains the session (using WWW::Mechanize and HTTP::Cookies), performs several searches and parses through all the pages of the results, (mostly through regular expression pattern matching)

So if I do end up doing this in a different language, it would need to have something like WWW::Mechanize readily available.

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