Re: WinRT, Metro, Windows 8

Does it have to be "native", or can it be HTML + JavaScript + CSS?

http://stackoverflow.com/a/8881451/716443

Certainly Perl can output HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. So a Perl application could provide the back-end platform for such a concoction.

Otherwise, you might face the more difficult task of creating Perl bindings for a C++ library that supports the Win-8 UI.

Dave

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Re^2: WinRT, Metro, Windows 8 by bcarroll (Pilgrim) on Mar 30, 2014 at 21:27 UTC
The main thing I am looking for is a way for a perl script to run like a metro-style/Windows Runtime (might have a newer name). I can format a Tk window to look like a Metro/WinRT/? app (basically fullscreen and optimized layout for touch screens). By default, when the script executes Windows switches from the Start Screen to the Desktop, then the script is executed (With the desktop in the background). Metro-style apps don't switch to the desktop when they execute, they run in an app container which is not tied to the traditional Windows desktop. Windows 8 Application Development info on MSDN	[reply]

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Re^2: WinRT, Metro, Windows 8
by bcarroll (Pilgrim) on Mar 30, 2014 at 21:27 UTC

The main thing I am looking for is a way for a perl script to run like a metro-style/Windows Runtime (might have a newer name).

I can format a Tk window to look like a Metro/WinRT/? app (basically fullscreen and optimized layout for touch screens). By default, when the script executes Windows switches from the Start Screen to the Desktop, then the script is executed (With the desktop in the background).

Metro-style apps don't switch to the desktop when they execute, they run in an app container which is not tied to the traditional Windows desktop.

Windows 8 Application Development info on MSDN

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