Well, GTK+ seems to be a somewhat accepted standard in the *NIX world (unless you are a KDE user). There are also windows ports of the libraries, so that makes them somewhat cross-platform. So if you are indeed leaning towards a GUI frontend, i'd check out the GTK+ homepage, as well as the tutorial for the perl bindings.

There exists an O'Reilly book called Learning Perl/TK if you wish to go that route. However, the book is extremely buggy (some of the included examples don't even compile). You can find the errata online, but thats a definite hassle.

Most any GUI frontend is still going to require the backend written in good old perl, so you can go ahead and start the project/module/etc, and tie it to a GUI when you finally decide the best course of actions.

On a side note, TK/GTK+ programming is highly untrivial. You may even want to check out the Xlib Programming Manual to get an overview on how GUI's talk to eachother, themselves, and to the underlying OS.
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In reply to Re: Where oh where to start (looking) by BlueLines
in thread Where oh where to start (looking) by gryng

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