Re: question on software development

2010-03-04 Thread David Christensen
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 int

Fwd: Re: question on software development

2010-03-04 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.03.04 21:34, ANJAN PURKAYASTHA wrote: > Are you joking? This was supposed to be a serious question. I'll answer it again: - right-click on your desktop - click 'create shortcut' - click 'Browse' - locate the installation package that contains your program from within your network - click

Re: question on software development

2010-03-04 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.03.04 20:04, 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? Research Associate at Harvard Uni

question on software development

2010-03-04 Thread ANJAN PURKAYASTHA
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? TIA, Anjan -- = anjan purkayastha, phd

RE: Controlling one process depending on the status of another

2010-03-04 Thread Bob McConnell
From: Eric Veith1 > Bob, > > what language would you have used? I admit this is my first Perl project > to involve this kind of child process handling. Eric, The final choice depends very much on A) target environment and B) resources required. The use of libraries, both private and third par

Re: parsing numbers from grep

2010-03-04 Thread Uri Guttman
> "R" == Ruud writes: R> Shawn H Corey wrote: >> Uri Guttman wrote: >>> that modifies @ARGV so it is a bad idea. also it bypasses grep's purpose >>> of filtering a list. and as i posted, map is the correct solution >> >> map is not the correct solution since it does not filter

Re: Controlling one process depending on the status of another

2010-03-04 Thread Eric Veith1
Jeremiah Foster wrote on 03/03/2010 02:09:40 PM: > I would avoid threads. I would have a program / process on machine 0 > that fires off another program / process on machine 1. Then I guess > you need to fire off your program on machine 2 to do network > monitoring (?). When the program on 1 is

Re: parsing numbers from grep

2010-03-04 Thread Dr.Ruud
Shawn H Corey wrote: Uri Guttman wrote: that modifies @ARGV so it is a bad idea. also it bypasses grep's purpose of filtering a list. and as i posted, map is the correct solution map is not the correct solution since it does not filter out those which do not match the pattern. Only grep can

Sharing Object::InsideOut object between threads

2010-03-04 Thread menth0l
Hi, I'm having some problems with passing an object of Object::InsideOut type through Thread::Queue object. Here's some simple illustration of this problem: http://pastebin.com/PEC7EMB8 Why refcount() shows "3" for object dequeued from queue? And why is object not destroyed as it should be? Is t