Did anybody every make a Graphic interface using Perl

juo has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have a question about Perl. I have often heard that Perl is as powerfull as a programmer language like C++ and can do most operations and sometimes even better. I was wondering if anybody has ever written a graphical display interface showing drawed lines and objects and ability to query those objects in Perl. Because so far I don't have seen any graphical applications of Perl besides of the GUI module Tk which is something else.

Pieter

Sorry about the confusion. I did not mean GUI interface but a CAM interface like somebody so nicely said below. I want to make some simple CAM interface showing certain objects on the screen in the form of lines and pads. See example below :

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The sample above would have to show an object which has a certain name and which existing out of a combination of lines. A closed polygon.

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Re: Did anybody every make a Graphic interface using Perl by Joost (Canon) on Nov 02, 2004 at 08:02 UTC
I really can't visualize what kind of program you're describing. A program that draws things on a window and then queries those drawings or widgets... Do you mean for instance; the position of a line on the canvas, the state of a button (clicked, raised, lowered, active...). Perl/Tk is very good at that kind of thing. Perl/Tk is not a program ofcourse, it's a toolkit for writing GUI programs with. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]
Re: Did anybody every make a Graphic interface using Perl by dimar (Curate) on Nov 02, 2004 at 14:02 UTC
Your question is a bit unclear, but it seems to have 2 parts: 1) Is perl capable of doing what you are talking about; and 2) Has anybody ever done what you are talking about using perl. The answer to your first question is "if it can be done in C++, it can be done in perl. The answer to your second question depends on what exactly you mean by "interface showing drawed lines and objects." CAD / CAM software? Diagram Generation software? Graphics and Multimedia presentation software? any general tool for visually manipulating a Directed Acyclic Graph? If you do not have anything specific in mind, then what you want is a general overview. A good book for this is Mastering Algorithms with Perl http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/maperl/index.html	[reply]
Re: Did anybody every make a Graphic interface using Perl by jdporter (Paladin) on Nov 02, 2004 at 14:51 UTC
Check out (GUI) Windows Programming FAQ. (It's isn't just about MS Windows, btw. And read the whole thread; there are other good resources mentioned in replies.) You might also check out What ISN'T good about PerlGTK?. There's a ton of Wx-related stuff on CPAN. And see the wxWidgets home page. And of course there's plenty of Wx-related stuff here at the monastery.	[reply]
Re: Did anybody every make a Graphic interface using Perl by jdtoronto (Prior) on Nov 02, 2004 at 14:42 UTC
A lot of what you ask for can be done in Tk, or in WxPerl, or GTk - all available from Perl. Depending on what you need to do there is also PDL - the Perl Data Language which has enormously powerful computational graphics, image manipulation and graphing capability. jdtoronto	[reply]
Re: Did anybody every make a Graphic interface using Perl by samtregar (Abbot) on Nov 02, 2004 at 16:50 UTC
I did a GUI app in Perl once called gRMA. It showed objects and lines using a Tk canvas. Generally I think there are better environments for programming desktop GUIs (Java, C#, etc), but if you want to do it in Perl you certainly can. -sam	[reply]
Re: Did anybody every make a Graphic interface using Perl by William G. Davis (Friar) on Nov 02, 2004 at 20:55 UTC
Block Stacker - A Block Stacking Game for Perl. If all you want to do is draw a few lines and geometric shapes on screen, maybe put up a GIFs or two and move them around for while, it's really pretty easy in Perl using Tk and the Tk::Canvas widget.	[reply]