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Tkx is closer to "pure" Tk (meaning Tcl/Tk) than perl/Tk, so there is much more chances to write better quality software in Tkx than in perl/Tk.

Perl/Tk is outdated by construction.

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Re^5: Tkx combobox error on quit
by zentara (Cardinal) on Sep 23, 2008 at 15:02 UTC
    Perl/Tk is outdated by construction

    I agree. I recommend Perl/Gtk2 to people who are looking for something with good fundamental design. But Tk will be around for a long time, because of it's userbase and ease-of-use for simple things.

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      its okay to prefer perl/Gtk2 over perl/Tk or Tkx or perl/TclTk.
      I aware of benefits of Gtk2 over Tk (better unicode, more fundamental design indeed)

      However I do prefer Perl/TclTk for the following simple reasons, from the top of my head:

      • Tk-8.5 looks good on linux (8.4 was much worse due to fonts rendering, although this never was a problem on windows)
      • programming Gtk2 seems much more noisy to me. Tcl/Tk GUI code is usually very short and thus more understandable.
      • Tcl/Tk is very lightweight. It is essential when creating PAR distros for Windows. 3MBytes of extra weight and no dependencies on installed GUI library with a huge widget set.
        Gtk2, on the contrary, requires large directory, it isn't always easy to manage it on windows (DLL with same name on PATH is usually a problem)

      Best regards,
      Vadim.

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        All good points. The one I would throw in for Perl/Gtk2, is that if you know a bit of c, it is easy to convert your Perl/Gtk2 to the c Gtk+. There is a very close adherance to the naming and functioning, and the Gnome-developer tutorials are pretty good.
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