In regard to GUI programming, I must say that Perl/Tk is very easy to get into. I haven't really done anything with GTK+ or Win32::GUI, but Perl/Tk was very easy to "get". If you choose to go this route, the resource I used most often (aside from Mastering Perl/Tk) was this collection of man pages.

As well, you probably aren't looking for an outright "hand out" for your notepad project, but if you get stuck (assuming you go with Perl/Tk) feel free to check out medit, a notepad-like editor that I wrote.

In reply to Re: Reclaiming Perl by xjar
in thread Reclaiming Perl by iamnothing

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.