Hi David and Shlomi, Thank you very much for your feedback. I am indeed developing a Perl application for which I would like to give the user a short-cut icon on the desktop. I'll follow up on your helpful pointers. Most of my end-users are molecular biologists who are averse to doing anything on the command line, hence the question.
Steve my man, Although I appreciate your taking the time to answer my question I must say the tone of you mail was immature and unprofessional. Firstly, you misunderstood my question and secondly not every question can be framed in terms of "code". Given that there are many experienced developers on this forum- my mail requesting guidelines and pointers on developing GUI-based applications was completely in line. So my suggestion to you is (a) get rid of the Harvard-envy and (b) lighten up. Cheers all! Anjan On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:42 AM, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@iglu.org.il> wrote: > On Friday 05 Mar 2010 06:27:51 David Christensen wrote: > > ANJAN PURKAYASTHA wrote: > > > OK, suppose I develop a Perl application. I want to create an icon for > > > the program so that a user may download the program and start it in the > > > GUI by double-clicking on the icon. > > > How does one go about doing it? > > > > It sounds like 1) you want to put your Perl application into an > > installable package, and 2) when installed, the installer should create > > a shortcut on the desktop (?). > > > > > > I use Perl from the command-line, but have looked at Perl GUI stuff > > occasionally over the years. The key will be finding the right tool(s) > > for your target operating system(s)/ desktop environment(s). > > > > For Windows, I'd suggest ActiveState Perl: > > > > http://www.activestate.com/ > > > > Actually, Strawberry Perl is preferable over AS Perl: > > http://strawberryperl.com/ > > <<< > A 100% Open Source Perl for Windows that is exactly the same > as Perl everywhere else. And with Perl 5.10.1 it gets even better! > >>> > > > For Debian GNU/ Linux, I'd suggest the Apt package management system and > > the Gnome desktop: > > > > http://wiki.debian.org/Apt > > > > http://pkg-gnome.alioth.debian.org/ > > > > I can recommend what to do for Mandriva and other RPM-based distributions > if > it helps. > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > Funny Anti-Terrorism Story - http://shlom.in/enemy > > Deletionists delete Wikipedia articles that they consider lame. > Chuck Norris deletes deletionists whom he considers lame. > > Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . > -- ============================= anjan purkayastha, phd * research associate * fas center for systems biology, * harvard university * =============================
