Re: GUI and standalone Perl - can we build a new FAQ please?

Another viable solution (not mentioned in the FAQ) for a cross-platform GUI is to provide an HTML-based interface, essentially by turning your app into a CGI app, and then by embedding into your app a mini HTTP server (such as HTTP::Server::Simple, but there are also others on CPAN).

POPFile is a successful cross platform stand-alone application (entirely written in Perl) which does exactly this.

The new Devel::ebug is another (much acclaimed) application that does the same (through Catalyst).

Furthermore Ajax-based technologies offer nowadays the same level of interactivity offered by a native GUI, so using such an interface you don't have to give up anything.

Ciao,
Emanuele.

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Re^2: GUI and standalone Perl - can we build a new FAQ please? by spurperl (Priest) on Sep 05, 2005 at 15:51 UTC
Actually, this is a very nice solution and I'd love to have some more information (FAQ, Tutorials, etc.) about it.	[reply]
Re^3: GUI and standalone Perl - can we build a new FAQ please? by emazep (Priest) on Sep 05, 2005 at 16:25 UTC
Catalyst is probably at the moment the best framework to develop such an application, since it already offers both an embedded web-server and a plugin (Catalyst::Plugin::Prototype) to facilitate the development of Ajax interfaces. So I would suggest to approach it (though I have no experience about packaging a Catalyst-based application into a stand alone executable.) Ciao, Emanuele.	[reply]