I understand that kiosk mode opens the browser in full screen, but that's not the main issue here. A browser window is not sufficient when a GUI requires constant live communication with the Perl program. Sure, you can write a webpage that sends stuff over the internet, and then somewhere your perl program captures that. And you could even install a web server package. But you said you didn't want to install anything extra, so... Anyway, can you imagine a paint software or a stock chart viewer where live data communication is required, and your perl program fetches the data and has to display it live on the screen? I don't know how that would work. In the case of the original post, maybe a live connection isn't necessary, because the temperature doesn't fluctuate or change so rapidly, but still... I'm not sure how one would solve this problem if more data was involved and live display was required.

In reply to Re^3: Perl GUI by harangzsolt33
in thread Perl GUI by Bod

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