in reply to State of the GUI widget art?

Well, there's Tk, Gtk2, Wx, and maybe Qt (but I don't know if there's a well-maintained binding). Tk is the classic Perl GUI toolkit, but it doesn't look very modern (I've seen some extensions that help, but people still seem to want to move to "more modern" GUI toolkits). Gtk2 seems to be a pretty good toolkit, and I'd encourage you to dig into those installation problems a bit more, but since you're asking about alternatives, my main suggestion would be Citrus Perl, http://www.citrusperl.com/, which comes Wx ready-to-go.

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Re^2: State of the GUI widget art?
by over2sd (Beadle) on Sep 28, 2014 at 02:48 UTC

    Thank you for your response.

    This actually isn't the first time I've wrangled with Gtk on Windows, so I'm fairly disenchanted with that, especially as their site very pointedly says the downloads are intended for devs, not end users. It's one thing for me to fight to shove a lib into place; quite another for me to ask my users to do it.

    I think what I'll be using is Prima. It installed cleanly from cpan under Strawberry, and the Web shows it had a release within the last 3 months.

    However, I welcome any further thoughts anyone might have on a better option, as I haven't yet had a chance to dig into Prima's documentation.

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Re^2: State of the GUI widget art?
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 27, 2014 at 22:52 UTC
    Hmm, it looks like Citrus Perl hasn't had a release in over a year... :-/
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      Hmm, it looks like Citrus Perl hasn't had a release in over a year... :-/

      And then what happened?

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        And then what happened?

        ... what? Just in case that's not a troll but your version of "so what?":

        Citrus Perl 5.16.3 with Wx 0.9918 was released in April 2013, almost 1.5 years ago. Perl 5.16 is no longer officially supported by P5P. Wx has had three releases since then. In the past 1.5 years, the Citrus Perl support newsgroup has seen ~10 posts.

        Based on this info, Citrus Perl (apparently along with the Wx PPM repository and the Cava Packager) looks unmaintained and - even though I really like the idea of Citrus & Cava - I wouldn't use it. Rather I would install the latest Wx into a local Perl instead.

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