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

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 18.08 -0500 1998.10.29, Eric Albert wrote:
>At 6:01 PM -0500 10/29/98, Chris Nandor wrote:
>>At 17.22 -0500 1998.10.29, Eric Albert wrote:
>>>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.
>>
>>Or you can download a program called ProgressBar and a module called
>>Mac::Apps::PBar.  :)
>
>Right...that's what I was talking about.

Oh ... AFAICT, it is not a compile AppleScript, it is a regular ol'
program.  You threw me.


>Is it preferable to have an
>all-Perl solution, or to use MacPerl to interface with another application?
>I don't really know the answer to this....

An all-perl solution is good.  I had thought of making a MacPerl progress
bar many times myself.

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