Re: Most portable way of GUI programming?

Why not make it a cgi? TK and Win32::GUI are great, don't get me wrong, but a cgi will allow you to make the code truly cross-platform. You can do buttons, lists, checkboxes, whatever you need, and you won't have to worry about a rewrite if you have to port it to another OS. Plus, you don't need to install any CPAN modules to put it on a new machine, as I recall, CGI.pm comes standard.

-Logan
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Re: Re: Most portable way of GUI programming? by Schemer (Scribe) on Dec 02, 2002 at 05:51 UTC
...areas where custom graphics (some kind of collapsable trees) could be drawn. A CGI really doesn't solves this problem, does it? And maybe you don't need to install CPAN modules, but you might have to install a webserver.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Most portable way of GUI programming? by shotgunefx (Parson) on Dec 02, 2002 at 08:48 UTC
You have a point, but it's fairly easy to write a server in Perl. Popfile is a good example. Personally, when it makes sense for the application (No canvases, etc), I prefer the CGI approach. -Lee "To be civilized is to deny one's nature."	[reply]