Re: [wxperl-users] Win32 newbie question

[Nick J. <sk...@er...>]

Bastian Hoyer wrote:

>Hi, 
>
>I'm using the activeperl distribution with winxp and just tried the small
>example from the website and noticed that if I start the script from the
>explorer it opens a command box for the perl script and then it opens the
>tutorial wx dialog. Is it possible to suppress the perl.exe window ?
>
>Bastian
>
First of all, don't use something like "newbie question" as your 
subject, it's not very helpful. You don't have to apologise for being a 
newbie. Just use the subject to describe your problem, e.g. "Suppress 
DOS box when running wxPerl program".

Secondly, I think this probably has probably come up on the list before, 
and is in a FAQ somewhere.

But to answer your question, there are a number of ways to resolve this 
problem. I think you can create a mini Perl script that runs your proper 
program using Win32::CreateProcess (perldoc can help you out). 
ActivePerl contains a non-console Perl executable called 'wperl.exe' 
(probably in the perl/bin directory) which will not bring up a console 
window, so you could maybe associate .plw files with wperl.exe, just as 
a suggestion. Not sure whether STDIN, STDOUT and STDERR would be visible 
with the non-console version, but that may not be a problem for you.

Good luck with wxPerl.

- Nick