[KLUG Members] No perl experts out there have worked with Tk?

[Mike Slack]

I've never used Perl/Tk.  I've never heard anyone say many good things
about it.

I have used Gtk-Perl, which works pretty nicely, though you need to be
able to read the Gtk+ documentation (written in C), and translate into
the appropriate calls in Perl.  For Perl programmers, Gtk-Perl seems
to have more of a future than Perl/Tk.  For the unfamiliar, Gtk+ is
the Gimp toolkit, which is quite popular for doing GUI C programming
on Linux (including of course, the Gimp itself).  There isn't really
any active work on the Gtk+ for Windows.

If you are interested in GUI/scripting in general, I think the best
solution is wxPython, which is a combination of Python and wxWindows.
I've done a few significant projects with wxPython, with good success.
Python is much easier to use than Perl (and no, I am not an anti-Perl
bigot -- I actually like Perl a lot), especially for large projects,
and wxWindows is a very nice (free) cross platform GUI toolkit, written
in C++, with a Python binding.  With wxPython, you can even create
binaries for Linux and Windows from the same Python code, a very nice 
feature.  It's also not too hard to port the Python code to C++ if
you want to squeeze out the extra performance down the road.  There
is also a wxPerl project, though I don't think it has nearly the same
benefits and support as wxPython.

Mike

Ralph M. Deal (deal@kzoo.edu) wrote:
> Hi, folks,
> I'm surprized that no one has responded to my perl/Tk shout for help. 
> Must be a dead area for everyone.  Did anyone ever TRY perl/Tk?
> 
> 	Ralph
> 
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