Re: Win32::Start Perl/Tk Script Without Annoying DOS Window

[jsprat]

in reply to Win32::Start Perl/Tk Script Without Annoying DOS Window

Or if you use ActiveState Perl (maybe others?), Just use wperl.exe: wperl c:\yourdir\yourTKscript.pl.

Update: I must not have been clear enough. In \Perl\bin there is an executable called wperl.exe that will run a script without opening the command prompt. It's simply a perl interpreter compiled as a Windows application rather than a console application.

Try this - Create a shortcut on the desktop with wperl c:\path\to\script.pl. Double click it and see what happens. Look ma! No DOS box! ;)

Update 2:podmaster informs me that wperl comes with all perls compiled on win32

[PERLscienceman]

[PERLscienceman]

Excellent! This works perfectly!
I will use this from now on under Win32.
Thank you for the clarification.
It makes things much simpler.

[Anonymous Monk]

Ah, but does anyone have any idea how to keep other processes from spawning new DOS windows? For example, I need to run cvs commands from a script and each time a run one I get a new DOS window. This happens whether I do a 'system( "cvs ..." )' or an 'open(CVS, "cvs ... |"); (For that matter, it happens on a `pwd`.)