In other words, if you want a cross-platform GUI toolkit, simply restrict yourself to one platform and you can have it ??

XUL/XPCOM is cross platform, its the perl bindings that are not.

XPCOM is what powers Mozilla, Netscape, Komodo - This is not a OS fad.
What you describe with HTA, is a lightweight hack in comparison. XPCOM works similarly to COM, but is available on any platform that has a Mozilla port. plXPCOM supports two-way communication - from any mozilla/gecko based application out to perl, and from perl out to any XPCOM component. This is powerful stuff.
But the mailing list for plXPCOM is empty. I havn't heard anyone mention either xul or xpcom in the perl community. Python and Java already have bindings.

In other words, lets get this thing made as Perl needs it (and maybe it needs perl). I cant program in C++ and dont know perl internals, spreading the word is the best i have to offer. I know there are people on these boards who are up to this, and could make this happen.


time was, I could move my arms like a bird and...

In reply to Re: Re: there.is.only.xul by Ctrl-z
in thread use AnyGUI by jonadab

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