Thank you little (and of course jcwren).

I think I will pursue both avenues (GTK and HTML), I am well on my way with links to read about for GTK. However I know HTML is a hairy and TIMTOWDI way of programming.

Unfortunately HTML is also a place I am not well experienced (at least, on the backside of things). I understand what CGI is (as in, it's not a programming language, it's an interface), and a few other basic concepts.

However, I am very swamped at the myriad of choices on how to approach programming a HTML server. I like the idea of using Apache (because it's a good karma program and useful for many other things), but I'm not wholly against writing the UI to be completely standalone without Apache.

So, I am asking, which do I choose, what are the differences? mod_perl, etc? My UI program will be interfacing with the jukebox program to get it's information and send it's commands (most likely through UNIX domain and TCP/IP socket programming). It would need to present the current playlist with a few commands to help control what the play list looks like (I think the gtk-perl interface will have more powerful/interactive commands than the HTML one).

Thanks again guys for all your help, I really appreciate it!!! :)

Cheers,
Gryn

In reply to HTML UI? by gryng
in thread Where oh where to start (looking) by gryng

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