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Do you even need a toolkit? (Score:2)
periodically pop up alerts on my machine
do you even need a GUI toolkit? It seems to me like a plain MessageBox [microsoft.com] API call is all you need.
That is, unless you want the script to continue running while the message is shown. In that case, you could set up a simple window with The GUI Loft [darserman.com]. Oldie, but probably good enough.
And I've never seen a service with a GUI, I'm not sure if it will behave nicely.
Re:Do you even need a toolkit? (Score:2)
Actually I think I'll probably input a couple of things into the dialog box, so it's more than just a message box.
But I'm unclear on what you're suggesting ... write XS code? Or is there some standard way to call MessageBox from Perl? I'm pretty ignorant. :)
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