Google Adsense ads in a Tk app.

[Anonymous Monk]

I am looking for a way to put Google Adsense ads in my Tk apps, so I can do so free software thing and still make a little money, without charging for my software. I can't find anything about adding adsense ads to a tk app. Anybody have any thoughts? A purely perl implementation is preffered.
If there is not a better (pure perl) solution, my current implementation uses Win32::IE::Mechanize and an html page with a single adsense banner on it.

Win32::IE::Mechanize can grab the URL of the image and the href URL. The image can be displayed using Tk::Photo, but I am not sure of the bext method to display the actual ad webpage, I am currently using Win32::IE::Mechanize to fire up Internet Explorer and goto the URL of the ad.

This works fine for most, but if IE is not the default browser some may complain.

[moritz]

Last I looked (which is admittedly about 1.5 years ago) Adsense was only support for HTML pages and RSS feeds, not applications. So unless something changed in the mean time, you can't.

[lamprecht]

Hi,

you can use the start command to invoke the default browser:

 perl -e "system ('start', '/B','http:/perlmonks.org')"

See start /? for options and explanation of the /B switch


Cheers, Chris

[Anonymous Monk]

HTML::Display

[belg4mit]

Eww, adware. As moritz suggests, you should check the TOS. If you really want to go this route, you could try JE.