X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:15:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Richard Foulk cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Windows popup/message box? In-Reply-To: <200607272025.k6RKPGTI008773@sd.skydive1.com> Message-ID: References: <1154020255.3607.ezmlm@cygwin.com> <200607272025.k6RKPGTI008773@sd.skydive1.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Richard Foulk wrote: > Looking for a simple way to popup a message box on Windows via > a Perl script on a system with Cygwin. > > Looking for portability, light weight, foolproof. The `net send' > option doesn't seem very reliable or portable. Theoretically, it should be as simple as use Win32::GUI qw(MessageBox); MessageBox(0, "message", "title", 64); However, the Win32::GUI module fails to load for me at the moment, claiming the DLL is not found. I have no time to investigate and create a proper bug report, but if it works for you -- great. If you want portability, however, your best bet is to rely on something that will be found on every system (which libwin32 isn't). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/