in reply to Windows GUI for Perl Script

I have no experience with win32 gui programming in perl, but there are some cross-platform toolkits I've used that work on windows too:

Tk is good, has probably the most documentation of all the GUI toolkits for perl and it's cross-platform. It doesn't really look "window-like", though.

wxPerl is crossplatform too, but looks and behaves much more like a native platform GUI. The docs are a bit sparse, so you'll need to translate a lot from the C++ API docs to Perl if you want to do anything special.

Gtk and Gtk2 I haven't tried to use in years, so I'm not sure what their status is (or even if they run on windows). SDL is nice if you want moving graphics and sounds.

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Re^2: Windows GUI for Perl Script
by Courage (Parson) on Mar 16, 2005 at 18:40 UTC
    Tk *does* look natively on Windows, when used wisely: http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/screenshots/windowsxp.html

    More to that, you can have windows look-n-feel on linux, and many different similar things.

    As for Gtk2, I was disappointed by its usage on Windows: quite old binaries, which are hard to re-build (many dependencies on different GNU libraries).
    Also, Gtk2 binaries on Windows occupy 18Mbytes on my system, and, while widgets are interesting to see, they are not native look-n-feel ...

    At least Tcl/Tk is much much more ligthweight than Gtk2, easier to setup, rebuld, develop/distribute software and use.

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