Re^2: Perl TK

Thanks for all the information. I had read this morning that perl tk was no longer being maintained, which I why I said my book is no longer relevant.
I would rather not stick with a dying method of implementing TK.
Since this is not the case I guess I have no issues. Thanks again.

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Re^3: Perl TK by zentara (Cardinal) on Sep 29, 2010 at 16:27 UTC
There is a bit of truth in the lack of maintenance in the Tk module. When Nick Ing Simmons( Tk module's author) passed away, Slaven Rezsic took over maintenance. BUT, he is just maintaining it, as in fixing bugs. There has been all sorts of advances in the underlying TCL libraries; especially in things like Theme Support and thread safety, that need to be incorporated into Perl Tk. In that respect, Tk is falling behind. On the other hand, Tk is so simple to use, that is is very easy to reach for it for simple GUI's, like just displaying some text or lists. I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Old Perl Programmer Haiku ................... flash japh	[reply]

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Re^3: Perl TK
by zentara (Cardinal) on Sep 29, 2010 at 16:27 UTC

There has been all sorts of advances in the underlying TCL libraries; especially in things like Theme Support and thread safety, that need to be incorporated into Perl Tk. In that respect, Tk is falling behind. On the other hand, Tk is so simple to use, that is is very easy to reach for it for simple GUI's, like just displaying some text or lists.

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth.
Old Perl Programmer Haiku ................... flash japh

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