in reply to Wx vs. Tk

Wx is relatively new, Tk has been around a long time and is well supported and stable.

The lack of layout design tools for Tk does make it somewhat harder to get a really good looking interface. I have just finished a new application using Perl/Tk. I used Tk for several reasons.

Now Wx is nice! I looked at it, and I will look at it again. I will also look at Prima - yet another GUI toolkit for Perl. As always in this wonderful Perl culture - TIMTOWTDI. And lastly, for some of us, Tk is what is available to us. In many sites where Iwork I am restricted to either CPAN on Linux or Activestate PPM's for Windows. There are no PPM packages for the Wx environment.

jdtoronto

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Re: Re: Wx vs. Tk
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Oct 17, 2003 at 14:45 UTC
    There are no PPM packages for the Wx environment.
    I beg to differ ;)(if you go to the wxperl website you can download all the binaries you want)

    MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
    I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
    ** The third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.

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      Indeed you are correct, my apologies. However it fails the automatic build test at ActiveState and therefore , as far as my two AS user clients are concerned it does not exist!

      jdtoronto

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        So does every package which requires an external library (it's not like the AS build machines are going to have wxWindows installed) ... I've never heard of an "AS user client".

        MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
        I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
        ** The third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.

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