Re: Quoting issue in Windows

2019-11-29 Thread William Michels via perl6-users
On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 8:33 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > > Hi All, > > Windows 7, sp1, x64 > rakudo-star-2019.03-x86_64 (JIT).msi > > Why does this type of line keep giving me heartburn? > > print( "Drive $Drive" ~ ":" ~ '\' ~ " dismounted\n\n" ); > > K:\Windows\NtUtil>perl6 -c WinMou

Re: words and separators question

2019-11-29 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
On 2019-11-28 05:51, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: Hi All, I have a situation where I can see two different strings:     "xxx     zzz"     "avcde    fg hi  jklmx" "fg hi" only has one space in the middle. All the words have multiple spaces between them. Is there a way

Quoting issue in Windows

2019-11-29 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
Hi All, Windows 7, sp1, x64 rakudo-star-2019.03-x86_64 (JIT).msi Why does this type of line keep giving me heartburn? print( "Drive $Drive" ~ ":" ~ '\' ~ " dismounted\n\n" ); K:\Windows\NtUtil>perl6 -c WinMount.pm6 ===SORRY!=== Error while compiling K:\Windows\NtUtil/WinMount.pm6 Confused (run

Re: pop ups in windows?

2019-11-29 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
On 2019-11-23 23:59, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: Hi All, In windows "msg" only works on the pro version .  Do we have some way of popping up messages to the user? Many thanks, -T Hi All, With the help of the nice folks over on Stack Overflow, I wrote a module. # unit module WinMsg;

Re: pop ups in windows?

2019-11-29 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
On 2019-11-25 17:53, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: On 2019-11-25 17:32, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 2:59 AM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users mailto:perl6-us...@perl.org>> wrote:     Hi All,     In windows "msg" only works on the pro version .  Do we     have

Re: GTK for Windows

2019-11-29 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
On 2019-11-28 19:26, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: Hi All, Do we have something like use GTK::Simple; use GTK::Simple::App; for Windows? Many thanks, -T I got them working after installing git.

Tip: Windows Perl6 zef required git

2019-11-29 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
Hi All, Windows 7, sp1, x64 rakudo-star-2019.03-x86_64 (JIT).msi If you are wondering why zef is not working with Perl6 in Windows, it is because zef requires git and the package left it out. I reported it over at zef requires git https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/issues/ You can download