PERL Problem

rancheros

having a problem with the PPM package manager in perl 5, when i want to search for a module, it says

Error: 500 Can't connect to ppm.ActiveState.com:80 (Bad protocol 'tcp')

this used to work before for me, on a dialup connection, using BB now would this make a difference?

daymobrew

rancheros wrote:

Error: 500 Can't connect to ppm.ActiveState.com:80 (Bad protocol 'tcp')

The tcp error makes it seem like the Internet connection is not active. Can you 'ping ppm.activestate.com' from the command line before launching ppm?
I was able to search ppm and ping the server (ip 207.17.179.112).

You can download the module zip file from:
http://ppm.activestate.com/PPMPackages/zips/8xx-builds-only/Windows/
(It's a big page - 623KB)
Expand the zip file and point ppm at the '.ppm' file (I can't remember the syntax and I don't see it in the docs but probably something like: ppm install name.ppm).

rancheros

just tryed ping'g it there and got a response, i'll download the module and try, going to have a look at GUI in perl, do you know anything about this

daymobrew

No, I don't know anything about creating a GUI (presumably you mean Tk).

I see in the ActiveState docs that there are three perl/Tk programs in the distribution: ptked (an editor), ptksh (a utility for testing perl/Tk programs) and tkjpeg (JPG viewer). You can read the source for ideas.

rsynnott

You can do a GUI in perl at least with Tk and GTK. GTK's probably preferable.

Zaltais

There's also wxPerl, for creating cross platform GUI's using wxWidgets. Last I looked the documentation was quite lacking, but there were some good examples available with a bit of googling.

hostyle

And the whole Win32::* branch of modules, which of course are not cross-platform.