I'm not sure I can be entirely clear. I'm discovering that the moment I decide "This is what I want..." and then I find it, I start to think, "Boy! Now if only it had this feature too." :)

Right now I'm really struggling with a portable way to visually display information. It would be nice if I could take some feedback from the display once it was created, like say, a visual merge tool might employ. That sort of level of control. Graphics are not that important at this point, but then I usually throw out that possibility altogether when I approach a problem, due to the fact that perl's so text/data centric.

I wonder if there's a convenient table of the possible visual tools, their portability across systems, their feature limitations and such. I found myself digging through a lot of libraries but couldn't tell if, for example, Wx was coming or going, in terms of adoption, etc. And I'm curious if google's doing anything interesting in this arena as well with their new OS/aps... but that's mostly me getting sidetracked. :)

In reply to Re^2: Visual Perl by raybies
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