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New Perl/TK Editor

by mikasue (Friar)
on May 17, 2006 at 19:52 UTC ( [id://550070]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

mikasue has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

http://search.cpan.org/~felixl/vptk-1.22/vptk_w.pl

Has anyone checked out this new Perl/Tk editor? I'm playing around with it. It is ok. Takes a while to find out how it works and I can't find any tutorials.
There are two versions one for canvas and one for widgets.

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Re: New Perl/TK Editor
by zentara (Archbishop) on May 18, 2006 at 11:31 UTC
    <2 cents> It's not new, it's been around for quite some time. It generates "boiler-plate code". There are a few others like it around. I don't want to be-little it in any way, because I applaud the effort to make a RAD tool for Tk. But sadly, they all are limited in functionality, confine you to working with their boiler-plate-code, and generally limit your creativity. The author posts on the newsgroup comp.lang.perl.tk

    Ask almost anyone who has written complex Tk apps, and they will tell you to "build your app from scratch", you will learn more, have more control, and produce cleaner code.

    It probably could be useful in situations where you need to make alot of small, simple apps on a regular basis. </2 cents>


    I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh
      Well, AFAIK it's been more than 15 years now that most desktop applications are developed using IDEs. Actually putting together a complete full-fledged app interface without an IDE is a royal pain in the back and easily takes weeks, while it can be done in a couple of days with an IDE. I didn't try this particular tool of course, but ZooZ makes an excellent job and provides a good enough boiler-plate code.
        I agree that you learn more when you do it from scratch as I have learned a lot. But now that I have learned how to add a frame and an entry box, why not just use an IDE to do it faster. wazoox I will try that ZooZ. Thanks!

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