re: very basic TK

2001-05-09 Thread bowman
that should be 'very basic Tk'. No kidding -- change use TK; to use Tk; and try it. ___ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-users

Subject: Detecting multiple instances

2001-04-08 Thread bowman
>Is there a way to detect whether a script (or exe) is running, so that >one can prevent a second instance? you can get a list of the currect processes, and search through it for the process name you are interested in. On Nt/2000, I believe 'net info' will list them, or there are some freeware

RE: installing CPAN modules with ActivePerl

2001-02-13 Thread bowman
>A friend suggested getting cygwin32 (sort of a UNIX shell for Windows) and >running their version of "make". I tried that about a year ago and wasted >two days on it before finding that cygwin32 doesn't work on Windows 9x. Cygwin works on Win9x. You might try rewriting the make file in nmake sy

re: perl running slow

2000-12-17 Thread bowman
From: Dan Jablonsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have evaluated the number of >rows to be written in the database to around 4,500,000 >rows. In almost 48 hours the program has written only >300,000. I want make it run much more faster. > >Any ideas, please?!?! Are you doing an UPDATE or an INSERT? If

Re: How to access the com ports on W2K

2000-12-10 Thread bowman
>I have tried to install win32-serialport, but then i get an error message: >Could not locate PPM binary of 'Win32-SerialPort.ppd' for this platform Win32::SerialPort depends on Win32::CommPort which appears to just use API calls to the various Comm functions in kernel32.ddl. I haven't used Win2K

RE: How to access the com ports on W2K

2000-12-09 Thread bowman
>I have plunderd with this problem for a while, and i don't understan how to >access the com port (1) so I can dump a (NMEA 0813)-string into my perl program. I haven't used it on Win2K, but the Win32::Serial module works fine on NT4. It has the additional advantage of having a parallel Devi