Creating Graphical Applications

kamesh3183 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: Creating Graphical Applications by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Jan 06, 2005 at 10:35 UTC
Tk Win32::GUI Wx For starters /J\	[reply]
Re: Creating Graphical Applications by erix (Prior) on Jan 06, 2005 at 11:08 UTC
It is hard to say which is 'best'. I like wxPerl (=Wx), which has native window controls based on wxwidgets. The module has a demo directory with examples.	[reply]
Re: Creating Graphical Applications by JYDawg (Novice) on Jan 06, 2005 at 11:11 UTC
Kamesh, There are quite a number of libs (among them): TK comes with active perl, and is fairly well documented Wxperl looks good and is (also) platform independant. Then QT and GTK have their libs. but for me that's a grey area. I guess it's good to start with Tk. --- Lead me not into temptation for I can find it myself...	[reply]
Re: Creating Graphical Applications by zentara (Cardinal) on Jan 06, 2005 at 13:12 UTC
If you are a beginner to GUI's , stick with Tk. ActiveState's Perl comes with Tk included, so you won't have to deal with getting extra libraries. I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh	[reply]
Re: Creating Graphical Applications by jplindstrom (Monsignor) on Jan 06, 2005 at 17:34 UTC
Start by looking at the (GUI) Windows Programming FAQ. If you end up going with Win32::GUI, The GUI Loft site is a good place to start (full disclosure: I'm the author of TGL). Subscribe to the win32-gui-users list mentioned. I've also started writing a tutorial (which is at some kind of alpha level at the moment, but it may be helpful). /J	[reply]
Re: Creating Graphical Applications by EdwardG (Vicar) on Jan 06, 2005 at 10:33 UTC
Please suggest in detail. The answer largely depends on what kind of graphical application you want to create. Please answer in detail.	[reply]
Re^2: Creating Graphical Applications by kamesh3183 (Beadle) on Jan 06, 2005 at 10:53 UTC
I am new to perl GUI programming.I just wanted to play with it.To be more elaborate,it will be a simple apllication.I would like to have one main window which contains some lables and buttons and importantely one progress bar. So you can see that this is a simple application. Performance is not an issue. But as I move on am definetely interested in performance. It is purely Windows platform specific.I hope it is some what clear now.. thanks kamesh	[reply]
Re: Creating Graphical Applications by holli (Abbot) on Jan 06, 2005 at 12:10 UTC
if "graphical" means you want to draw to the screen directly, there is the SDL-Library. SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer.graphics-library. taken from http://www.libsdl.org There is a perl-interface available (SDL_perl) here (win32-build) or here, documentation can be found here.	[reply]