I am looking for a way to put Google Adsense ads in my Tk apps, so I can do so free software thing and still make a little money, without charging for my software. I can't find anything about adding adsense ads to a tk app. Anybody have any thoughts? A purely perl implementation is preffered.
If there is not a better (pure perl) solution, my current implementation uses Win32::IE::Mechanize and an html page with a single adsense banner on it.

Win32::IE::Mechanize can grab the URL of the image and the href URL. The image can be displayed using Tk::Photo, but I am not sure of the bext method to display the actual ad webpage, I am currently using Win32::IE::Mechanize to fire up Internet Explorer and goto the URL of the ad.

This works fine for most, but if IE is not the default browser some may complain.

In reply to Google Adsense ads in a Tk app. by Anonymous Monk

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