I've been working on a Perl application in Tk for some time (obligatory plug), but I'm considering switching over to Prima. Prima has a lot of things going for it, such as:

• a really clean design
• active development (a stable release every month or two)
• smaller distribution (1/3 the size of Tk as source; about 3/4 the size of Tk as a binary)
• antialiased fonts
• more object-orientation (and thus more extensibility)

But before I make the switch, though, I was wondering if anyone had any comments about Prima and how it compares to Tk. Also, there are a few features Tk has that I'd have to be able to use in order to switch to Prima:

• an editable rich-text control (like Tk::Text)
• the ability to set global options as with the resource database available from Tk
• the ability to call a function similar to DoOneEvent rather than entering a gui loop (or the ability to set a timer)
• something similar to Tk::Frame - a widget used only for grouping

Does anyone know if Prima supports these things?

Thanks,
Bill

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