It would be nice, but you run into the problem of some features supported on some toolkits, and not on others, and the ways to call such are all different. Sure, I know this is what a unified toolkit would try to solve , but unlike DBI and databases, where there is a nice standard SQL that all of them basically support, toolkits have no such standard so that even trying to distill a subset of GUI elements that would work would be a rather daunting task. Also, you have problems with how events are handled in the various toolkits; this is probably a bigger stumbling block for a perl interface than it might seem.

The best way to do any sort of problem that might have a graphical interface is to remove as much of the non-GUI-based logic from the code into a module, and then write GUI code that uses that module; this way, if you write a QT app and I'd like to make a GTK version, I don't have to play around with your logic, only do the necessary 'mapping' of GUI elements.

Dr. Michael K. Neylon - mneylon-pm@masemware.com || "You've left the lens cap of your mind on again, Pinky" - The Brain

In reply to Re: User Interfaces by Masem
in thread User Interfaces by petesmiley

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