in reply to Re: Gtk2 + GladeXML
in thread Best GUI package for Perl ?

You're asking for function separation in Perl/Tk? Well, just do it! It's the same as in normal non-GUI programming. You can use subroutines, you can use modules. Granted, there are some nice features in Tk which allows for writing quick scripts (e.g. -variable, anon subroutines in command bindings), but nobody forces you to use these features.

This is just like people complaining about Perl to lead to unmaintainable code. You can write unmaintainable code in both Perl and Perl/Tk, but you can also write nice code if you use the language and module wisely.

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Re^3: Gtk2 + GladeXML
by Eyck (Priest) on Jul 29, 2004 at 07:58 UTC
    What you propose is rewriting GladeXML but using perl instead of xml for interface description.

    And where are those tools that would allow drawing GUI with your proprietary perl interface?

    The problem is that GUI requires different style of thinking/coding then general problems ( that's one of the reasons why GUI programmers tend to think that OOP is so great - o yeah, it's great for writing GUIs, not always so great for solving general problems )

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      What you propose is rewriting GladeXML but using perl instead of xml for interface description.
      I fail to see what's the advantage of writing 
                <child>
            <widget class="GtkTextView" id="text1">
              <property name="visible">True</property>
              <property name="can_focus">True</property>
              <property name="editable">True</property>
              <property name="justification">GTK_JUSTIFY_LEFT</propert
+y>
              <property name="wrap_mode">GTK_WRAP_WORD</property>
              <property name="cursor_visible">True</property>
            </widget>
          </child>

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      instead 
      $parent->TextView(
    Name => "text1",
    -visible => 1,
    -editable => 1,
    -justification => "left",
    -wrap_mode => "word",
    -cursor_visible => 1,
);

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      And where are those tools that would allow drawing GUI with your proprietary perl interface?
      Tcl/Tk was written to make it easy to write GUIs with just a text editor, and Perl/Tk is comparable. Some people may not be comfortable with this approach, but some are.
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        The advantage lies in the fact that only perl can parse Perl.

        Makeshifts last the longest.

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