[pm-h] Perl on Windows

[John Ellyson]

Since someone is suggesting Win32::GUI, I'd recommend using TGL (The GUI
Loft) as a good companion tool for Win32::GUI.

However, there are two major drawbacks to TGL.  First, it is "outdated" and
doesn't 100% match with the current versions of Win32::GUI.  Second, I'm
not sure if the code generation functionality actually works.

What I usually do is to use the TGL as a way to quickly prototype the GUI
interface, which lets me very quickly figure out the location and sizes of
the GUI elements.  In my opinion, that's much faster and easier than to
trying to code, test, modify code, test, etc.

I guess another major drawback is actually finding TGL.  Since the original
sites seems to be down, it looks like you need to use the internet time
machine (aka The Wayback Machine - http://archive.org/web/) to get a copy.

http://web.archive.org/web/20111130150941/http://www.darserman.com/Perl/Loft/

John Ellyson


On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray.at> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Chris Blanc <cblanc at dionysius.com> wrote:
> > This is awesome. I don't care if Perl isn't the trendy web language,
> > because as far as I can tell all of the trendy web stuff is worthless
> > anyway, but I think it's a great language for gluing together an
> > operating system. I enjoy Windows but tend to use it through a mixture
> > of the CLI and Perl, simply because GUIs are inherently inefficient
> > for many (but not every) task. I would suggest a focus on how to
> > integrate Perl with the Windows interface, e.g. adding to right-click
> > menus, drag-n-drop, automated changes to Windows config/registry and
> > making common scripts easily available. There's also a lot of
> > web-based stuff that Perl is useful for, such as removing 80-column
> > line breaks in Windows txt files and converting Linux or Macintosh
> > (ewwww) text files to Windows format.
>
> I developed commercially for windows perl for a few years, so you can
> ask me in the meetings.
>
> You need basically libwin, Win32::GUI, Par::Dist and a nice installer.
> I used mainly the NSIS installer http://nsis.sourceforge.net/
> With Win32::GUI you can develop much nicer native windows apps
> than with any other language: python, php, tcl, vbasic, tcl, java,
> lisp, lua, ruby, ...
>
> Both activeperl and strawberry are fine.
>
> For true compilations via perlcc instead of Par you need a patched or
> a recent perl. This is only for hardcore devs.
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