Starting an Application without a DOS box

[Oliver Grenz]

Hello,

I've started developing little Perl/Tk applications on Win32.
On my system runs ActivePerl-5.6.1.629 and the Tk module.

When I start a newly written programm (click on the shortcut icon on the
desktop) the perl interpreter is invoked in a DOS box and the GUI
programm starts in an other window. That's ok, but I don't want the
command shell window opens every time I start my little GUI app. I know
that I can fire up my programm with the c:\>perl app.pl command but I
want it to start only with a click on the desktop icon without opening
the command shell.

Who can help me?

Thanks a lot

Oliver

[Jan Matejka]

You have two possibilities:

1) Use perl.exe - console application and
"manually" close DOS window

if ($^O eq 'MSWin32') {
require Win32::Console;
Win32::Console::Free();
}

2} Use wperl.exe - GUI version of perl - instead
of perl.exe. No DOS window appears

Warning:

if using perl.exe, you are working in OEM coding
x
wperl.exe uses ANSI coding.
Tk uses ANSI coding.

MaT

"Oliver Grenz" <oliver...@huber-spedition.de> wrote in message
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[Holger Nauendorff]

Jan Matejka wrote:
> You have two possibilities:
>
> [..]
>
Third possibility:
Start your script via a batch-file.

Regards
Holger
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[Bart van den Burg]

unfortunately, a batch runs in console in Win32

Bart

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[Holger Nauendorff]

uups, you're right. I should start my win98 before writing such stupid stuff.

Holger

[Holger Nauendorff]

Hmm, it wasn't so stupid. The console-windows opens only for half a second.
It is been closed after the script has started. Maybe it is not the best
way, but it works.

Holger

[John Walker]

There's a very elegant solution to this problem in the Perl Cookbook.