xCode/AppleScript interact with Perl
Hi guys and girls!
I am very new to xCode and did very simple things in AppleScript so, please understand my not understanding of things at first. Thank you!
Here is the problem:
I have a Perl script and need to create a UI wrapper for it. Let's say Perl has the following line:
print "Enter your Name: ";
$name = <STDIN>; chomp $name;
I need a UI for that so it will run Perl catch the text "Enter your Name", print it in dialog or so with textbox where user could enter his/her name and passes value from the textbox back to Perl script so it could process data from the input.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Mark.
Let me guess. You want a dialog box to pop up, asking for a user name. The user enters their name and presses OK. Then it runs a Perl script.
Mm, I don't know anything about this. Sorry.
If your script is very simple, you'll probably find the package "CocoaDialog" to be very helpful.
http://cocoadialog.sourceforge.net/examples.html
If you want to execute Perl from Cocoa, you can use the NSTask class to invoke programs - it's something like Perl's system() function. Cocoa and Obj/C is of course C - so you can use the standand library system() function. In a GUI program however, accepting input from the user using <STDIN> is likely to either fail, or pop up a terminal window or something - I'm not too sure - give it go and see what happens.
However in the first instance, please look at CocoaDialog - it'll probably get you up and running in a few minutes.
