Create a GUI for my Perl Program? Make Your Program Pretty?

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Re: Create a GUI for my Perl Program? Make Your Program Pretty? by davido (Cardinal) on Sep 26, 2013 at 20:24 UTC
Tk, Wx... Or build an inward-facing web-app front end using something like Mojolicious or Dancer ...or if you want to experience 1986 all over again, Curses. Dave	[reply]
Re: Create a GUI for my Perl Program? Make Your Program Pretty? by tobyink (Canon) on Sep 26, 2013 at 20:53 UTC
Prima is one of the easiest GUI toolkits I've used for Perl, though it's a bit of a stretch to call it "pretty". Wx is somewhat prettier, though a little harder to get started with. I second davido's suggestion of skipping the GUI and going straight for a web-based API. `use Moops; class Cow :rw { has name => (default => 'Ermintrude') }; say Cow->new->name`	[reply]
Re: Create a GUI for my Perl Program? Make Your Program Pretty? by mtmcc (Hermit) on Sep 26, 2013 at 22:35 UTC
This seems to me borderline meditation... But in any case, in my view, command line applications are plenty beautiful. From time to time however, I need to make my perl scripts accessible to people who are not comfortable with command line applications, and in that case, I use perl/tk Perl/Tk is well documented, with good CPAN support, and is easy to adapt to multiple platforms. And is easy to learn, provided you have a basic understanding of OO programming. I hope that's of some use!	[reply]
Re: Create a GUI for my Perl Program? Make Your Program Pretty? by wjw (Priest) on Sep 26, 2013 at 22:23 UTC
I have played about with Zenity a bit..if your are running some Gnome system it works pretty nicely for simple things and integrates well with Perl via Dialog::UI Zenity Manual There is some sample code here Zenity test ...the majority is always wrong, and always the last to know about it... ..by my will, and by will alone.. I set my mind in motion	[reply]