in reply to New Perl/Tk-Designer (Free)

Hey this is pretty cool! Quick and easy to use.

I'm also confused by the 100% Perl quote, I tried a disassembler and it does not appear to be Perl code at all, at the very least, not "compiled" with PerlApp or with Perlcc.

All in all, pretty cool. I was able to whip up a quick frontend in no time at all. Personaly, I would probably only use this as a learning tool for TK but even so it has value in that regard.

The only concern I have has been expressed above, how do I know the code generated is going to work on *nix?, copy and run all the time would suck. Also, how many assumtions do you make that you are running ActiveState's Perl?

Looks like a good start, I would recomend portability as the next "feature".

Bugs

  • No "Save before quiting?" dialog when closing.
  • Help tab should consist of more than an "About" entry. If it doesn't have Help...don't call it Help.
  • Having samples would be a good thing.
  • When running something with an illegal command the error window did not always popup, had to push the "run" button several times to get the error.
  • The error message was in German, I could figure it out...but my German is pretty rusty these days :)

    "Nothing is sure but death and taxes" I say combine the two and its death to all taxes!

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    Re: Re: New Perl/Tk-Designer (Free)
    by demerphq (Chancellor) on Aug 09, 2002 at 19:34 UTC
      Help tab should consist of more than an "About" entry. If it doesn't have Help...don't call it Help.

      Nope. Putting "about" in the help menu is standard GUI design under Windows. (theres even some dumb acronym for it :-) Although I agree that putting "help" in the help menu is usually more important than putting "about" in the help menu. I assume that this is an early release so he's probably waiting for some users (and English ones at that) to help write up his help files.

      Hmm, on second though, im guessing, but somehow i suspect that if there _had_ been help there it would have been in german. :-)

      Yves / DeMerphq
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      Software Engineering is Programming when you can't. -- E. W. Dijkstra (RIP)

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        Hmm, agree that the "About" tabs are usually under "Help" menus in most Windows apps, however when there is only "About", I have usually seen it under a (redundantly named) "About" menu.

        Style I guess, I just think that if you advertise Help, it should be there :) And you may be right, help may be on the way and he is using it as a placeholder.

        "Nothing is sure but death and taxes" I say combine the two and its death to all taxes!
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