Hi,

I would make a Tier based Perl solution.

I mean, having a Polling System (cron, POE, threads, maybe...), a Data Backend (some DBMS could be PostgreSQL) and a Consumer GUI which gets the info from the DB.

This way the entire program acquisition, which is the very important thing is something small and stable which doesn't depend in any way with the user interaction, or gui libs or X server. And the GUI is only a consumer from the data stored in the DB. Why a DB? Because that way you have all the data in one place, and can get the data out in some different way, more flexibility to use other custom app that would use the data for further displaying or calculations.

This schema ilustrate it:

----------------------
|  data adquisition  |        Something small and robust.
----------------------
          |
          /
----------------------
| db storage of data |        DB backend, later you can use
----------------------        any software/language to
          /                   retrieve data, analisys, etc.
          |                   This way you're solution is
----------------------        very flexible.
| GUI, consumer, etc |        
----------------------
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Of course only a idea... ;-)

Regards,