Greeting Fellow Perl Aficionados,

Since day 1 all of my Perl requirements only involved text, especially since the majority of my scripts where run on Linux servers that did not even have x windows installed. Well, now I want to write a script for Windows machines which runs in a pretty window (oh the horror!). I've written a few scripts for Windows, and always just ran them in a DOS window. This would actually suit this script fine, but users are going to be executing it, and I don't want them to get turned off by the strange looking black box. I want to dazzle them with colors and flair. Well honestly, I just want to try something new (I get bored easily) and be given more control of the size of the box, colors, font, etc.

Anyway, I want it to be native to Perl (if that's possible) because I'm going to be converting it to a .exe using Active State's Perlapp from their Perl Dev Kit , which I recommend if you need this sort of thing. So I don't think Tk or QT are options, which will probably be overkill anyway. A quick look at CPAN produces Win32::GUI::XMLBuilder, which looks promising.

So, does anyone have any other recommendations or suggestions? Let's show them VB guys what Perl can do! They think there the only one's who can script in windows, oh if they only knew!

Cheers,
Dru

In reply to Window Choices for Windows by Dru

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