Re^2: Trouble installing TK under cygwin

I tried Tcl::Tk many, many moons ago. I've since forgotten what little I've learnt. I've invested some time now into learning Perl. I would like to harness what I have learnt, rather thant learn yet another language. The app I am writing is a prototype, so I don't have much time to learn something new.

Perhaps when I get a little more time I'll look into it again.

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Re^3: Trouble installing TK under cygwin by Courage (Parson) on Mar 22, 2005 at 18:18 UTC
To clarify: Tcl::Tk is Perl module from CPAN to connect to Tcl/Tk, so those are different things: Tcl::Tk is a bridge from Perl to Tcl/Tk But you can use Tcl::Tk with perlTk syntax (see How Perl/Tk and Tcl::Tk are similar and other nodes on that wiki), so no Tcl/Tk knowledge is required, although you'll get more flexibility if some Tcl/Tk understanding will be. However, if you really have little time for experiments, may be Tcl::Tk is not a way to go. Still, I have an opinion that with Tcl::Tk you can save your efforts in GUI programming, due to less time spent on recompiling and better TIMTOWTDI.	[reply]

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Re^3: Trouble installing TK under cygwin
by Courage (Parson) on Mar 22, 2005 at 18:18 UTC

But you can use Tcl::Tk with perlTk syntax (see How Perl/Tk and Tcl::Tk are similar and other nodes on that wiki), so no Tcl/Tk knowledge is required, although you'll get more flexibility if some Tcl/Tk understanding will be.

However, if you really have little time for experiments, may be Tcl::Tk is not a way to go.
Still, I have an opinion that with Tcl::Tk you can *save* your efforts in GUI programming, due to less time spent on recompiling and better TIMTOWTDI.

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