使用PerlTray在浏览器中运行Perl

Question

I am using perl tray from activestate and have a question. I am wanting to make some type of ui or way for a user to set "Settings" on my application. These settings can just be written / read from a text file that is stored on the users computer.

The part I am not understanding though is how to go about making a ui. The only thing i can think of is showing a local perl page that runs on their computer to write to the file. However, I'm not sure how i could get perl to run in the browser when only using perltray.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

PerlTray is an odd duck. It has an implicit event loop that kicks in after you either fall off the end of your program or after your 1st call to exit() . This makes it incompatible with most other common GUI event loops or most mini-server techniques that operate in the same process & thread.

2 possibilities come to mind:

• Most Likely you'll have success spawning a thread or process that creates a traditional perl GUI or a mini-server hosting your configuration web-app. I'd probably pick Tkx, but that's just my preference.

• I have a suspicion that the Event Loop used by Win32::GUI may actually be compatible with the event loop in PerlTray, but some experimentation would be required to verify that. I generally avoid Win32::GUI because it's not platform independent, but if you're using PerlTray, you're tied to Windows anyway...