Re: [MacPerl] Shared scripts, fragments, and other MacPerl code

[Eric Albert <ejalbert@cs.stanford.edu>]

At 11:13 AM -0800 10/29/98, Vicki Brown wrote:
>Anyway, this serves as a good reason for me to remind you'all that we're
>maintaining a Contributed MacPerl Scripts area on The MacPerl Pages at
>http://www.ptf.com/macperl/depts/Code/ Please consider posting yyour
>scripts, fragments, modles, templates, etc.  so that they can be shared
>with others!

That brings up a question that I've wondered about for a while.  I was
playing with a couple of things in MacPerl and noticed that if you want a
progress bar in your application, you have to download a compiled
AppleScript and then call that through MacPerl.  Wanting to get around the
minor annoyance of having to distribute another application along with
mine, I've written a little Mac::Utils::ProgressBar module that works much
the same as the current AppleScript one, but (of course) is entirely in
Perl and therefore can be bundled in the resource fork of a
double-clickable app.  I don't know if there's a demand for this or not, or
even if it's an improvement over the current solution, but if you're
interested, drop me a note, and if there's any demand for it at all, I'll
be more than glad to post it.

BTW, it doesn't do Appearance stuff yet...is that even possible in MacPerl?
If so, where would I go to learn how to do that?

-Eric
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Eric Albert                     ejalbert@cs.stanford.edu
http://www.stanford.edu/~ejalbert/

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