Hi,

I'm a big fan of Tk so I may be biased when I compliment you on your choice of Perl GUI APIs. :) Seriously it runs just about everywhere, and is pretty hassle-free compared to getting Gtk or wx to work on the platforms where they are supported. Some don't like the looks of Tk, but except for a few detail items that Tk isn't able to control, I think it looks presentable.

As for learning, I'd have to agree that all I've heard about Mastering Perl/Tk is a positive. If you want to give it a good go on your own you can do what I did - find examples at the monastery and ones that come with Tk. Keep a web browser open to the ActiveState documentation on Tk. Then just go to town. Start with simple examples and in no time ideas for useful applications will start to come to you.

If you are entirely new to GUI program one of the biggest hurdles you will have to cross is probably getting used to event driven programming. There are discussions around the monastery about how to adapt to the event-driven way of programming like this one of mine. Oh, I see I also talk about it here and both of those nodes have nice, simple (and hopefully programmatically "correct") examples of Perl/Tk code.

Good luck to you, and hopefully you will enjoy entering the world of GUI programming. I think Perl/Tk is a good way for you to go.
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In reply to Re: Using Tk for display/information purposes by {NULE}
in thread Using Tk for display/information purposes by newrisedesigns

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