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

[Adam Williams]

>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.

?  We use quite a few gtk apps on Windows: Dia, xsane, etc...

>If you are interested in GUI/scripting in general, I think the best
>solution is wxPython, which is a combination of Python and wxWindows.

Played with that.  Personally I didn't like wxWindows.  And we should get
Mr. Raymond to add YAWS to the hacker dictionary.  YAWS = Yet another widget
set.  We have MFC, Qt, GTK, and Motif.  Most UNIX systems support all the
last three.  Having to load YAWS is irritating and really burns up RAM
(otherwise at least all Qt apps share libqt.so or qt.dll, etc...).  V, X
Forms, etc... are all slowly withering away; let them - IMHO.

>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

Yes, I like python.  Coming from C it is more familiar than Perl,  and
*golly* is there anything it can't do to XML.

>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.

I'd recommend GTK, which has both a good perl and python binding library.
It has proven to be nicely cross platform for us.