Thanks for the suggestion. Yes I'm using ActiveState Perl 5.6.1.
Please quote an appropriate amount of context in your reply, so that others
can follow.
[ I have copied your original question... ]
-- I need to start a perl script from a Windows Start Menu shortcut. The
-- perl script uses TK to display the user interface. I know that I've
-- seen a way to create the shortcut so that a DOS window does not open
-- and hang around until my script ends but searching I cannot find it.
-- I've tried creating a bat script wrapper for my Perl script but that
-- wasn't the answer. Can anyone provide a pointer in the right
-- direction? Thanks.
[ ... and some context from Bob Walton's reply ]
++ Assuming you're using ActiveState Perl, check out: wperl instead of
++ the perl command.
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[...]
C:\Perl\bin\wperl.exe O:\prod\vobtools\bin\bvbfmerge.pl -w
When I select the shortcut I get one black window that appears and
disappears quickly. Then another opens and disappears followed by my
scripts Tk window. Ideally I'd prefer to skip the two popups, but this
is getting much closer.
Your comment "...this is getting much closer..." suggests to me that, by
using 'wperl.exe' instead of 'perl.exe', the number of "black popup-windows"
has been reduced. This is a good sign and (hopefully) a step in the right
direction.
The next step would be to create a simple "hello world" program that uses
Tk:
hello.pl
=====================
use strict;
use warnings;
use Tk;
my $main = new MainWindow;
$main->Label(-text => 'Hello World!')->pack;
MainLoop;
=====================
....and to call it using wperl.exe.
If you get any "black popup-windows" by running "wperl.exe hello.pl", then
this suggests a problem with your installation of Perl.
If you don't get any "black popup-windows" by running "wperl.exe hello.pl",
then this suggests that the two "black popup-windows" from your previous run
"wperl.exe O:\prod\vobtools\bin\bvbfmerge.pl" have been a consequence of
some actions inside "bvbfmerge.pl".
I hope this helps.
