I need to do a smaller (6-7 windows/dialogs) GUI-based project that needs to run mainly on MS Windows. The program needs to deal with MIDI and MIDI files, and since I happen to like perl, naturally I am looking into using perl :) (even though the guy I'm going to do it for would prefer me to use SmallTalk). However, the different GUI libraries available confuse me.

I only have GUI experience with Delphi, C++ (Qt) and Java, so I'm wondering which library I should use with Perl. I am aware of Tk, wxWindows and Win32::GUI. What are your experiences with these libraries? Is there a good comparison somewhere on the Net? Are there any speed issues (both development speed and execution speed)? Also, is it all manual coding or are there any good (and free) visual tools?

Thanks for sharing your wisdom :).

In reply to Which GUI Library should I use? by crenz

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