Re: Using advanced widgets in Perl/Tk

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.)

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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]

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Re^2: Using advanced widgets in Perl/Tk
by Courage (Parson) on Sep 19, 2004 at 07:08 UTC

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

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