Application GUIs with PERL.

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Re: Application GUIs with PERL. by kschwab (Vicar) on Mar 16, 2001 at 07:10 UTC
Before you give up on Tk, you may want to have a look at Tk::HList. It's a sort of extended listbox widget, with color. I've had great success with it. As far a autosizing goes, you may just need to experiment a bit more with the geometry manager, pack() and/or place().	[reply]
Re: Re: Application GUIs with PERL. by dusk (Friar) on Mar 16, 2001 at 07:21 UTC
You can use Gtk. Although I'm unfamiliar with Tk, I've used Gtk; and, as I understand it, Tk is easier to work with and produces good results. If, however, you become interested in Gtk, this is a good resource.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Application GUIs with PERL. by frag (Hermit) on Mar 16, 2001 at 21:09 UTC
Also, perl.com ran a two-part tutorial on using GTK-Perl, written by Simon Cozens. The URLs are http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/10/gnome.html and http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/11/gnome2.html. I've only personally gotten as far as the "Hello World" in the first part before getting distracted by other things, but it looks helpful. There's more information about GTK at http://www.gtk.org. Note that the big drawback to using GTK is that there's no stable Win32 implementation yet, although work's being done on in over at http://user.sgic.fi/~tml/gimp/win32/. -- Frag.	[reply]
Re: Re: Application GUIs with PERL. by Anonymous Monk on Mar 16, 2001 at 07:51 UTC
Actually, I tried HLIST via TREE. (See previous sub about 15 down under dneedles2. It has two examples. I got 0 replies). The behavior I see is the selected item colors across the frame but unselected rows only color to the end of the text. It makes for a rather ugly app. Could you forward me an example that works?	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: Application GUIs with PERL. by Anonymous Monk on Mar 16, 2001 at 09:40 UTC
It's possible that there are different responses with different OSes.. I'm not really sure if those two modules have really been tested with Win2k	[reply]
Re: Re: Application GUIs with PERL. by Anonymous Monk on Mar 16, 2001 at 07:55 UTC
Regarding the autosize. I have no problem with regular widgets. I'm having problems with the column headings inside the widgets. For example, in HLIST and TREE there seems to be no way to stop the columns from resizing. The language doesn't seem to handle sub widet and row items very well at all.	[reply]
Re: Application GUIs with PERL. by orbital (Scribe) on Mar 16, 2001 at 21:46 UTC
I have had good success with Win32::Gui Win32::GUI is a Win32-platform native graphical user interface toolkit for perl. basically, it's an XS implementation of most of the functions found in user32.dll and gdi32.dll, with an object oriented perl interface and an event-based dialog model that mimic the functionality of visual basic. The stablility of this module is quite good, considering stability in a win32 environment is an oxymoron.	[reply]