Using advanced widgets in Perl/Tk

Perl is one of the most popular languages out there, and is used for everything from mission-critical projects to Web applications to "glue." It is not, however, often used for GUI programming and prototyping. The author thinks it should be, and you probably will too -- after this look at some of the more complex widgets available for Perl/Tk.

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Re: Using advanced widgets in Perl/Tk by graff (Chancellor) on Aug 12, 2004 at 02:29 UTC
That's all really swell -- thanks. Any prognosis on when Tk will be able to do complex character rendering (e.g. Hindi) and/or bi-directional text (Hebrew, Arabic), in unicode? It would be great if Tk could catch up with all the multi-language possibilities being made available by Perl 5.8. (I work with people who are currently using Python with Gtk or Qt for GUIs, because this is the only way to render text in certain writing systems. I'd rather use Perl, and I know there are Gtk and Qt modules for Perl, but... oh well.)	[reply]
Re^2: Using advanced widgets in Perl/Tk by Courage (Parson) on Sep 19, 2004 at 07:08 UTC
perlTk able to process Unicode starting from Tk804.02x versions, for perl 5.8.x But even when that Unicode-awared version was not yet released, it was possible to do Unicore-awared GUI using installed Tcl/Tk, and with Tcl::Tk module as a bridge to communicate them, for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x You can see sample at http://www.vkonovalov.ru/vtcl-usage/Using_vtcl_for_creating_Tcl-Tk_GUI_for_Perl.html update fixed typo in link	[reply]
Re: Using advanced widgets in Perl/Tk by Courage (Parson) on Sep 19, 2004 at 07:25 UTC
Even more advanced-looking widgets exist in Tcl/Tk itself, some subset of it was included into PerlTk. You can check demos in Tcl/Tk distribution. All those are available to Perl, see http://www.vkonovalov.ru/perl-tcltk.htm	[reply]