Re^2: Conversion from Web script to stand-alone

The Windows Explorer, as in what you get when you press WindowsKey-E, is a subset of Internet Explorer since it became built into the operating system. If you pull up the Windows Explorer (WinKey-E) and then type "http://www.perlmonks.org" into the Address bar, it will load in the same window.

Setting up a CGI to run off a local HTTP server and then creating a shortcut that loads a "http://localhost/whatever" is not paticularly hard and the user experience will be what you want - its the installation of such a setup that is going to be a hassle. You will need to install ActiveState Perl and a local HTTP server on any machine you want to deploy to.

-Andrew.

Andrew Tomazos | andrew@tomazos.com | www.tomazos.com

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Re^3: Conversion from Web script to stand-alone by basje (Beadle) on Aug 14, 2005 at 12:57 UTC
The windows explorer is also the windowmanager in MSWindows. To keep it confusing...	[reply]
Re^3: Conversion from Web script to stand-alone by rvosa (Curate) on Aug 16, 2005 at 01:19 UTC
In your position, I would probably install at least these: Install PAR This will allow you to package your scripts into a self-contained "executable" (there's a bit more to it than that...). You will have to come up with a way to run a webserver locally, people have suggested for example HTTP::Daemon For BLAST searches locally, you will need to install the NCBI tools for windows: blast-2.2.11-ia32-win32.exe or possibly netblast if you just want to blast against remote databases. Then, to make perl talk to blast, I think this might be handy: Bio::Tools::Run::StandAloneBlast	[reply]