get user input without Tk ?

[MoshiachNow]

Hi,

What is the fastest way to get some user input without using Tk ?
Thanks

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[PaulTEG]

command line?

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[Kirsle]

Term::ReadKey

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[MoshiachNow]

Kirsle,

Thanks.I meant opening a GUI window without Tk.Like calling a windows "getOpenFile". Guess it's impossible ?

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[Kirsle]

Look into Win32::GUI. It should have functions to call "getOpenFile" type things.

Win32::GUI is like Tk but is Windows-only. The advantage is that it uses the native Win32 widgets, not ones emulated by Tk. Also, if you compile a Perl script to an EXE, a Tk script is automatically 3 MB in size because it includes the whole Tk lib, whereas a Win32::GUI executable is much much smaller, because it uses function calls to Windows, and doesn't include all the dirty window codes.

At any rate, in Win32::GUI when you make a new window, it doesn't appear by default, you have to show() it when you want it to appear. So, you could create a Win32::GUI window and keep it invisible, and use that to spawn your getOpenFile calls.

Also, Win32::GUI can make system tray icons for your program, but that's a different nifty feature in itself. ;-)

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[MoshiachNow]

Thanks,

ended up doing it with a Win32:FileOp (BrowseForFolder).
Very nice !

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[PROFESSORSPARKIE]

Maybe I don't understand the problem but if the perl is cgi(??) then send a simple web page back with a simple form for input to return to the same perl program with the value. The form could have a hidden form input field along with the requested input so that the perl program can determine this is the reply.

 

[KevinADC]

it's not CGI, it's GUI as noted in the thread.

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[PROFESSORSPARKIE]

sorry, I write very few non cgi perl programs. good luck