in reply to Which GUI Library should I use?

My first thought is you say it "needs to run mainly on MS Windows", and without wanting to appear unconstructive -- how mainly is mainly? Also although it GUI based is there a command-line varient? Your choices will probably be very different depending on whether it's 95% MSWin or say 60%, and whether or not a CLI alternative is availble or if people *have* to use the GUI.

My gut reaction would be to use Tk unless you're almost exclusively MSWin in which case I'd advocate Win32::GUI.

There's a lot of tutorials, documentation and code examples around for Perl/Tk, probably more than any other. But then again, it's the only one I'm reasonably familiar with (all my coding is manual sso I can't reccommend any visual tools).

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Re: Which GUI Library should I use?
by crenz (Priest) on Nov 15, 2002 at 10:54 UTC

    Okay, sorry for not being specific enough -- the app needs to run on Windows only, but I would consider it a nuisance to have to rewrite it just to be able to use it under, say, MacOS X or Linux as well. So if using a non-portable library would make things a lot easier, I would consider it -- else I'd go for the portability. A CLI would not make sense for that app, it is strictly GUI only.

    Seems like people have made good experiences with Tk. I do confess I thought it to be rather "clunky", but now I feel encouraged to go and give it a shot. Thanks so far!

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      Here's a Tk primer Essential Perl/TK Programming that helped me get a feel for what I needed to start with..

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