Re^3: How to create GUI for a perl script on MAC?/Apple Script and Perl?

[karlgoethebier]

This snippet reads a option, does the backgrounding and reads the pid of the current perlscript for killing it...

set theWindowTitle to "PerlMonks"
set theOption to text returned of (display dialog "Enter a sourceFolde
+r:" & return default answer "" with title theWindowTitle)
set thePerlscript to quoted form of (POSIX path of ((choose file with 
+prompt "Select a script:") as Unicode text))
set cmd to thePerlscript & " -S " & theOption & " &> /dev/null" & " & 
+ echo $!"
display dialog "Command: " & cmd with title theWindowTitle
do shell script cmd
set pid to the result
display dialog "PID: " & pid with title theWindowTitle
display dialog "Kill the proccess (" & pid & ")" buttons {"OK"} with t
+itle theWindowTitle
do shell script ("kill " & pid)

I hope this helps a little bit to work it out...

Best regards, Karl