Experienced monks,

Over the years, more so recently than in the past, I have written numerous GUI applications in Tk. Some were as easy as a grid of labels, others, complicated with self-rolled widgets, some using the Grid() manager, others Pack() or Place(). Each placement manager has their own strengths and weaknesses which I will not be discussing here.

What I would like to ask though is have you had any experience with WYSIWYG like programs to simply draw/drag-drop/configure widgets for those more complicated GUIs. So far, I've found SpecPerl, a project based on SpecTcl. However, SpecPerl has it's short comings - it is based solely on the grid geometry and has to go through Tcl to produce Tk. Are there any other alternatives (and writing the code by hand is certainly an option, but I was more interested in doing a quick click-drop-and-run solution)?

In reply to Perl/Tk WYSIWYG by gri6507

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