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

I'm trying to put an icon in the system tray (on Windows of course) when an event happens and have the icon disappear when I double click on it. I found this How do you toggle the system tray icon using Win32::Gui? when I did a Super Search but I can't get the code to run because of this compile error:

Can't locate Win32/GUI.pm in @INC (@INC contains: . C:/Perl/lib C:/Perl/site/lib .) at pm.pl line 1..

Can someone post or point me to a minimal piece of code that will do this?

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Re: Icon on system tray
by tcf22 (Priest) on Sep 29, 2003 at 21:22 UTC
    Use PPM. Sample follows 
    c:>ppm
PPM interactive shell (2.1.6) - type 'help' for available commands.
PPM> install Win32::GUI
intall Win32-GUI(y/n): y
...
PPM>

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    - Tom

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      Thamks Tom! That worked, I guess I was missing the library.
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Re: Icon on system tray
by jdtoronto (Prior) on Sep 29, 2003 at 21:06 UTC
    Well, maybe you should install the module first!

    The erorr line you gave us is typical of a module not being installed. Win32::GUI is NOT installed by default in ActiveState Perl. Use PPM as per the documentation and install it, then retry your code.

    jdtoronto

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Re: Icon on system tray
by Plankton (Vicar) on Sep 29, 2003 at 21:04 UTC
    I don't regularly use Active State Perl, but have you installed Win32 GUI with ppm

    Plankton: 1% Evil, 99% Hot Gas.
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Re: Icon on system tray
by dree (Monsignor) on Sep 30, 2003 at 08:30 UTC
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