Windows popup/message box?

Igor Peshansky pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Thu Jul 27 21:22:00 GMT 2006


On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Richard Foulk wrote:

> Looking for a simple way to popup a message box on Windows via
> a Perl script on a system with Cygwin.
>
> Looking for portability, light weight, foolproof.  The `net send'
> option doesn't seem very reliable or portable.

Theoretically, it should be as simple as

	use Win32::GUI qw(MessageBox);
	MessageBox(0, "message", "title", 64);

However, the Win32::GUI module fails to load for me at the moment,
claiming the DLL is not found.  I have no time to investigate and create a
proper bug report, but if it works for you -- great.

If you want portability, however, your best bet is to rely on something
that will be found on every system (which libwin32 isn't).
	Igor
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