Hi,

Let's say you want to write an application that runs on the user's computer and your choice language is perl. I would like to hear from you the merits and demerits of writing a Tk-based interface vs a browser-based interface. Roughly here's what is required for the app:

1) connection to a database system (likely to be MySQL)

2) stand-alone

3) perform some basic accounting stuff (like computing the profit figure)

4) display images dynamically

Would appreciate your sharing.

Thanks!

Update

Just did a quick experimentation of Perl + Tk with MySQL. Was relieved to find out that the code to access MySQL from the Ptk script is the same as the one from a web-based script. This Tk thing is totally new to me so there're lot of unknowns...

Read somewhere that it's harder to display tabular data in a Tk window than on a web page because with the webpage, you can easily output the rows of data on a table. Any thoughts on that?

In reply to Tk vs browser-based applications by kiat

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