ric00015 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

An idea I've been toying with is to include a popup window with hints and tricks before the user can use the program. On the window, there is a close button, and a checkbox to indicate that it won't open again on startup.

The problem comes from storing data between times the program is used, and the only way I can think of is to use a file. Store it in the user's home dir; if it's absent, pop up the help window; if it's there, don't. Or use a config file with an entry in there for the help window. That might be better.

But that's my idea. Anyone else have a good idea?

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Re: Tk Popup tutorial window only once?
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 31, 2013 at 21:31 UTC

    A config file allows you to save other options and preferences, and provides an obvious way for someone to re-enable the hints if they want them back after clicking to turn them off.

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Re: Tk Popup tutorial window only once?
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 01, 2013 at 02:13 UTC
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      Thanks for the TOTD tip. I just tried it, and it seemed to work, but I have a slight problem. The program doesn't seem to return control to the shell that called it once the program exits. The effect is reproducible in the following code:

      #!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use utf8;
use Tk;
use Tk::TOTD;

my $mw = MainWindow->new;

my $label = $mw->Label(
    -text => 'hi!')->pack;
my $entry = $mw->Entry()->pack;
my $button = $mw->Button(
    -text => 'push me!')->pack;

my @messages = (
    'message 1',
    'message 2',
    'message 3');

my $totd = $mw->TOTD (
    -title    => 'Tip Of The Day',
    -messages => \@messages);

$totd->Show;

MainLoop;

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      If necessary, i can open this in a new node.

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