I have experience with Tk.

I chose Tk because
#1 I was learning Perl and wanted to add a GUI to a program I was writting. What better way to use what I was learning and accomplish a task.

#2 Tk was easy to pick up. Granted the geometry managers took some study but everything else was a piece of cake. I particularly found the widgets interesting and there are soooo many more widgets available than the standard ones.

#3 Perl is fun so by default Tk is fun!

What I don't like about Tk is um um
#1 well I had some issues with the placement of the Dialogbox widget

#2 I have problems packaging my programs sometimes with pp or tkpp

All in all if you need an easy, fun, quick GUI solution Tk is the way to go.

In reply to Re: GUI toolkit choice by mikasue
in thread GUI toolkit choice by jbert

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