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Re: Tray Icon POP3 / IMAP Client with Win32::GUIby djw (Vicar) |
on Feb 27, 2002 at 15:43 UTC ( [id://147935]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
This is really cool! I gave it a go and I really like how it works so far. Some neat features to add would be a right click menu on the taskbar icon for things like "Check Mail", "Exit", "Read Messages", and "Send Mail" (if you add that ability). I know that you probably use the DOS window for debugging etc, but you may want to include a way to kill that when running your program. I found a quick way to do this somewhere (sorry I don't remember, this isn't mine) - basically create a file called 'start.pl' and use this snippet of code:
You could probably clean that up a lot (like checking for perl install path etc), but it will do the trick for most default installations. But you need a way to exit your program before you add this =) (I tried it and it worked, I just had to kill perl.exe in the task manager to exit your application). Just for fun, I also tried Perl2exe on traymail using the '-gui' option and that works as well (you need the registered version of Perl2exe to use the -gui option I beleive). To exit, I just killed the 'traymail.exe' app in task manager. Keep up the cool work LupoX! ++ djw
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