this is probably an obnoxious question that's been asked a mazillion times, but if I wanted to display my data visually in perl, how could I go about doing that?

Kinda how Java has SWT?

I've looked at Perl/TK, GTK and QT, but I just haven't been able to commit to those systems, because i feel like I'm being boxed into a nonportable set of routines that only work if I've installed the kitchen sink and have a given OS. Also I don't know how well supported they are--or if they'll just fall off the face of the earth next week, and well, I like the idea of being able to port my perl program between linux and windows-pc.

I've actually found that using raw html is the most portable format I can find once my data's altogether and I want to import it into say a Word document, or show it on the web. The main problem I have with raw html is that it's read-only--display data only--but no chance to grab this chunk and put it here, or feedback without creating webbuttons, and programming through a webserver, but then it's not attached to my perl program any longer, cuz it's data.

I guess I really don't know what I want--or if there's such a thing as an open visual data format, but it'd be nice if Perl supported this nonexistent idea. :)

Thoughts?

In reply to Visual Perl by raybies

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