Re^5: Tkx combobox error on quit

Perl/Tk is outdated by construction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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Re^6: Tkx combobox error on quit by vkon (Curate) on Sep 23, 2008 at 16:01 UTC
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.	[reply]
Re^7: Tkx combobox error on quit by zentara (Cardinal) on Sep 23, 2008 at 17:53 UTC
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. I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth Remember How Lucky You Are	[reply]