I have windows 98 SE with 32MB of RAM and 133MHz P2 processor. Does anyone know how I can make a GUI with perl, I have never programed a GUI before, I tryed the Tk module but had errors so I am now trying Win32::GUI The problem is I copy and pasted a simple GUI program from a tutorial then I ran it with my perl interpriter and got the following: Can't locate Win32/GUI.pm in @INC (@INC contains: C:/Program Files/Perl/lib C:/Program Files/Perl/site/lib .) at first.pl line 1. BEGIN failed --compilation aborted at first.pl line 1. Here is my code: use Win32::GUI; $W1 = new Win32::GUI::Window( -name => "W1", -title => "Main Window", -pos => [ 100, 100 ], -size => [ 300, 200 ], ); $W1->AddButton( -name => "Button1", -text => "Open popup window", -pos => [ 10, 10 ], ); $W2 = new Win32::GUI::Window( -name => "W2", -title => "Popup Window", -pos => [ 150, 150 ], -size => [ 300, 200 ], ); $W1->Show(); Win32::GUI::Dialog(); sub Button1_Click { $W2->Show(); } sub W1_Terminate { return -1; } $W2->AddButton( -name => "Button2", -text => "Close this window", -pos => [ 10, 10 ], ); sub Button2_Click { $W2->Hide(); } I have programed with C, Python, Qbasic, JavaScript, HTML, DHTML, CSS and CGI. I have only made dos applications. I don't know much about objects, classes, sockets or GUI for that matter, I like the look and ease of use of perl so I realy want to dig in and perhaps write a web browser now that I have some knowledge in networking and TCP/IP. I got myself perl2exe so I can compile my scripts into exe files but I realy need to get over this small GUI herdle. Can anyone tell me what I can do to fix this problem?

My Perl experience is getting dated, but even with all the new features coming out for it, I don't think it's the best way to go for an extensive GUI. C is the most common language for GUIs, with C++ classes wrapped around C in the lead these days. For faster coding, VB, full Java, and Object-Pascal (Borland's Delphi) are really popular. I'm not trying to discourage, as I love Perl, but for the more serious GUI work you have planned, you might be better off diving deeper into C or C++. If someone doesn't answer your question directly soon, you might want to repost, as some people might think this post already answered your immediate question.

I am seriously concidering your sugestion to dive deeper into C. Last night I found a example GUI program writen in C so I saved it then tryed to compile it, one error is stoping me from getting it to work, it said : Error A:\TL-WIN~1.C 3: Declaration syntax error The following is the code: #include int APIENTRY WinMain( HINSTANCE hInst, HINSTANCE hPrev, LPSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow ) { MessageBox( NULL, "Hello, World!", "Hi!", MB_OK ); return 0; } MessageBox() apeared on a single line. This is realy bugging me, I found another example last night that put a extra pre-processor directive after #include but still got the error. They were useing bcc32 to compile it which is Borlands C++ for Win32. I have only Bcc as I have C/C++ 3.1 Complete Compiler Edition, It comes with a development enviroment cpp.exe and bc.exe and a comand line compiler bcc.exe as well as the linker, after reading last night It has become aparent that maybe my compilers are only for 16 bit. I am not sure. Should I still be able to compile link and execute GUI apps with my compiler? And if not does anyone know where I can find a c/c++ compiler for win32 development for free as I have no money. Please help, once I can make a simple GUI application and sere it run I will be satisfied, then I will just read on my own time to learn all about the Win32API calls. Please help. P.S. I discovered the answer to my first post was I did not have the gui perl module installed so I installed it, but now it yells at me telling me one of the library files needed to run Dynaloader.pm is missing. That error ocured on line 206 if i remember corectly of Dynaloader.pm The code I used is the same as the very first code I pasted. Please help me anyone. I prefer to make all my apps in perl but I am willing to dance with C more then I have as long as I dont get C sick :)

I'm very familiar with bcc, and it's a great compiler. However, yours is somewhat dated, and 16-bit won't cut it, but Borland provides its latest compiler for free, in command-line form. You could write in your IDE, or one of the many free ones available, and use the newest bcc to make great code. It comes complete with the latest Win32 headers too: "http://www.borland.com/cbuilder/cppcomp/index.html" You don't have to spend a dime, and please don't get C sick :) The occasional catch with using bcc to compile programs specifically written for Micro$oft's compiler, is that there are some slightly different #pragmas, and sometimes also #defines and #includes. They're easy to bypass, though. The compiler switches (I'm assuming you're using a command line) are usually what it takes a little getting used to. But no matter what compiler you use, all Windows programs require the obligatory: #include That's the entry header into all the basic Win32 API stuff needed to write Windows stuff. If one's real savvy, then this line precedes that one: #define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN That makes compiles go faster, since it removes lots of less-commonly-used stuff.

Bracketted #include lines don't seem to post on this crazy site, so let's just say that line was: #include "windows.h" but with the double-quotes replaced with angle brackets.

Thank you so much for your help. Yesterday I got out my Teach yourself C book that I got at college and started to eat it/feed it to my brain :) it is very tastey, I forgot how much fun I had with C. When I was in college we made simple dos applications, we were not in a computers cource, we were EET (Electronics Engineering Technician) but we were required to have some computer programing under our belts so they gave us this neat book and a whole developemtn kit that came with it, I was the only one in the class that liked it, I seriously think my friend Brook wanted to burn it, he said it was evil. I got a high mark in that class but in the end I got woundering, what good is C if you cant make any graphical GUI progs, Now you just informed me that you can make GUI with C you just got to learn how. So of I go on one of my adventures, hopefully I will learn enough to make a web browser, though I doubt it will sell seing how many web browsers are already out there, many are free. I just got the compiler and free comand line tools you were talking about, cant wait to try them out. I have never compiled from the comand line, I always used the IDE to develop and the menu had a make so it compiled and linked with the point and clik of a mouse, but now that I got this new compiler for win 32 i am going to write my apps with a text editor then compile and link them at comand line, I might learn a thing or two at the same time :) Thank you so much for the help and I will definately try not to get C sick, I am disapointed about my GUI woos and wos with perl as I was hopeing to develop all my apps with perl. print "\n\x4De and \x4Dy perl:)\n"; I discoverded after useing perl2exe to convert perl scripts into exe files that the exe was way biger then it should be, about 400K for a simple line of text on the screen is a bit much :( oh well, away we go, me and C

This is so fun, i'm programing a storm in C now and loveing it, it seems a bit more complicated to GUI program in C then the examples I seen in perl but I love it. Eventualy I will try to figure out what went wrong with perl, I don't want to give up, but for now C will do for makeing my GUI, I decided that perhaps a web browser as a first GUI app might be a bit hard for a beginer like me so I am going to try to write a program like evidence eliminator to get me started, if it works I will ofer it as open source under the GPL license because evidence eliminator preforms such simple tasks that they could not posibly ask for money for it. I have a question for you if you are still reading this, do you think I should venture off into C++ eventualy or is C satisfactory, I hered that object oreintated programing produces smaller code, meaning less lines. I took a look the other day at a visual basic tutorial and that looked too easy plus I figured it problably was not very sucure as for not very good at encripting though I dont know till I try, the package is too big for my computer, I have a small HD with 2 gigs :( oh well back to work I go. I mean playing with C :)