Re: OO Perl and Tk

Oreilly is the way to go here:
Matering Perl/Tk I love all their books. My only complaint though, is I hate building GUI's manually! Its way too much code, and takes forever. I'd like to know if you have a Visual GUI designer that you use for Perl/Tk. I have tried Activestate's Komodo 3.0, but I don't like it. Since I program mostly in windows(I know, Iknow) I have actually taken to .Net. I got the Perl Dev kit and visual Perl from ActiveState and using C#,Visual Studio, and a book called Programming PERL in the .Net Environment by Yevgeny Menaker & company I have been having a blast.
Since everything is an object in .Net I simply draw a GUI ina C# project and make it inheritable. Then using the specialized PerlNet syntax I create a Perl object and code all of the methods,properties and event handlers in PERL! Its great. Of course this does not make for crossplatform code, but it does work, and works quite well for what I need.

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Re^2: OO Perl and Tk by jdtoronto (Prior) on Sep 09, 2004 at 20:07 UTC
ketema, Like you I hate building GUI's by hand. But I do so little of it, relatively speaking, that I can handle it. I am using Komodo 3.0, but whilst the editor portion is great, I am not sure I like the GUI builder either - but then I haven't tried it seriously. As for O'Reilly - if I had all the money I spent with O'Reilly over the years I would be in for a new car! Sadly I must be portable, although nobody buys the Linux version of our product sales tell me it is a great selling feature with so many folk "thinking of going to Linux" these days. Thanks for the suggestions! jdtoronto	[reply]
Re^2: OO Perl and Tk by KeighleHawk (Scribe) on Sep 09, 2004 at 20:13 UTC
Still have yet to mess with it myself, but you might try Prima at: http://prima.eu.org/	[reply]
Re^2: OO Perl and Tk by hartwig (Sexton) on Sep 10, 2004 at 06:34 UTC
I just read your comment about using NET and Perl. Pretty intersting idea - Especially under win32. Recently I wrote a perl/Tk application > 2000 lines - actually it was my choice to use perl for the app and (i love perl quite a lot...) it was a hassle :(. The widget in win32 are pretty buggy and I never figured out, why some things never worked out (spreadsheet widget and events :() - Can PERL.NET be an alternative in win32 enviroment? Well you have to rely on activestate support? What do you had to buy? Hartwig	[reply]
Re^2: OO Perl and Tk by qumsieh (Scribe) on Sep 10, 2004 at 17:16 UTC
I'd like to know if you have a Visual GUI designer that you use for Perl/Tk. I have been working on such a beast for a few months now and am almost ready to realease a beta version that will act as a release candidate for v1.0. An older beta version of the program, called ZooZ, can be found in my CPAN directory. Note that the CPAN version is very old. Many missing features have been implemented and many bugs have been ironed out. I just need to do a little more testing before releasing the beta version. Once I do this, I will announce it on comp.lang.perl.tk. Any comments and bug reports are very welcome.	[reply]