Hello All,

I would like to segway into the wonderful world of GUIs. Earlier today, I poked around the Monestary looking for information on Win32::GUI. After a few failed attempts at running simple tests, I decided to look up Tk. (See also: Win32::GUI vs Tk)

The Tk module comes with ActivePerl, and the test I found on PerlMonks: Re: Tk on Win32 worked perfectly.

The mental wheels started turning...

Many useful applications never take off until they have a friendly, usable interface. Tk will be able to provide a pretty frontend to my Perl scripts. And, from what I understand (I may be mistaken) Perl/Tk will run on any machine with Perl and the Tk module.

I would like to know if any one has some good references for programming with Tk. I have found, however, that much of the information on Tk deals with Tcl as well. I am completely unfamiliar with Tcl, with the exception that it's fairly easy to include in other languages. The two PM articles listed above were all I could find that dealt with Tk.

Given: Perl/Tk. I haven't gotten a chance to get to the bookstore yet, but next time I do, it will be purchased :)

Initially, I would like to create some simple apps that display various plain-text files, a log viewer, so to speak, so any information dealing with presenting text in a window would be greatly appreciated.

So, the short of the long is: if anyone has any good online references for a newbie to Tk, would you mind passing them along?

Many thanks,
John J Reiser
newrisedesigns.com

In reply to Using Tk for display/information purposes by newrisedesigns

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