Hi I'm learning perl and putting together a GUI application using TheLoft design package. In my study of both Perl and the GUI package I'm finding that I'm loosing a lot of time researching the basic questions which I don't seem to find in any documentation so far. For example:

1. Loading a .txt file in to a Richtext box

2. reading a value from a textfield

I found my solutions eventually but it took some digging. My question, apart from digging in to the bowls of the Monastry DB, can anyone recommend a good source of knowledge not of Perl but of the essentials for managing various gui controls? I've got all the Perl books I need just hard to find essential GUI references. I've tried ActivateState (I use Komodo) but even then just the basic $win-> tfTextfieldname-> Text line to read a textfield was hard to find referenced anywhere.

Appreciate any feedback.

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