in reply to Re: Why Tkx? And will Tk endure?
in thread Why Tkx? And will Tk endure?

Thank's for the info. The thing I liked best about regular Tk is that programs I wrote years ago originally on NetBSD at home and which worked unchanged also on Win2K at work...those same programs still work fine today, totally unchanged even after I have since switched from NetBSD to Ubuntu at home and have gone from Win2K through WinXP to Vista at work.

What with Win7 looming on the horizon, the idea of having to co-develop all those Perl/Tk scripts yet again for Tkx so as to work on both systems... Well, the prospect is daunting enough as to make me think about just starting over with something totally new. Guess I don't have to do that for a while yet. Whew! Thanks again.

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re^3: Why Tkx? And will Tk endure?
by brettcarroll (Initiate) on Apr 20, 2010 at 00:40 UTC
    Not sure why Tk was removed from the ActivePerl install (as of 5.10), but Perl/Tk development is very much active.

    You can get Perl/Tk without using ppm over the internet. Just download the module from CPAN, unzip it (I use WinRar cause it supports almost everything) then copy the files/folders for the perl modules into your perl\site\lib directory.

    Does Tkx support threading? If so that may one of the reasons.

[reply]
      but Perl/Tk development is very much active.

      s/very much/just barely/i

      Does Tkx support threading? If so that may one of the reasons.

      There is really only one reason, Tk.pm has been stalled for at least 8 years. With Tkx, you always have the latest widgets your Tcl/Tk install has to offer, and none have to be ported over to Perl/Tk (which doesn't happen often, happens slowly, and is always filled with bugs).

[reply]

        I read elsewhere that the author of Tk died in 2006 and on account of the project being so very large nobody wanted to take it on. Hence the fresh beginning with Tkx.

        So now I am wondering if it be too much of a stretch to suppose that with Tkx being the new best thing I could buy a book on TCL/Tk from Amazon, (this one, for instance) and armed only with that, I could carry on just as well as with the old Perl/Tk ... that I'd have nearly as many widgets (Balloon, etc) as before?

        It's not an idle question as I have a PM of my own to re-write, in such case. I never released it to CPAN after being totally unable to grok the CPANTS complaints appearing in my email from the one module I did release. But my very own Tk::EasyGUI.pm will need updating into a Tkx-ish variant. Trying to decide how much bother that is going to be.

        Or should I just bite the bullet and start anew with something else? If so, recommendations? What about wxPerl? Any others?

[reply]
Re^3: Why Tkx? And will Tk endure?
by tale103108 (Novice) on Jan 30, 2013 at 20:57 UTC

    I have coded Perl/Tk on Win7 without any issues.

[reply]

In Section Seekers of Perl Wisdom