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

[Ralph M. Deal]

Mike Slack wrote:

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


That implies you've heard some negative comments, right?


> 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.


perl/Tk seems to be alive in Windows but very much under development in 
LINUX.  That may be my problem.


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


Interesting.  I am interested in GUI/scripting in general and shall 
check out wxPython, even though I've never used python.


> 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.  


So my wife could use it her MS system, even at her office, even for/with 
her teachers!

> 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.


Thanks for the warning.     Ralph