Hello,

Is Perl good for windows applications?

I want to build a program using Perl and have a GUI for the end user to operate on.

Basically I want to program a little application that lets the user click on a "browse" button and the File Dialog (to search for files on your comp) box displays. Then the user would add any text files he wants stored into a list. The list will then load up everytime windows starts up.

I'm pretty sure Perl can build such an application, but would Visual Basic probably be the way to go? Or is Perl just as capable? If I was to learn more about Perl TK, does that involve compiling the actual application for windows users to download and work properly? Reason, that I do not want this jus tto be a perl script, is that not all people have Perl installed on their comps to execute the script.

Thanks for taking your time to read this. May be an odd post, but just need some feedback be4 I really get started on this little project. Thanks.

2006-03-05 Retitled by planetscape, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'Perl Applications'

In reply to Is Perl good for Windows applications? by Anonymous Monk

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