The last time I looked at Wx, it needed Gtk2 underneath it. I just setup the latest version of Gtk2-perl, and I must say it is awesome. It is the future. The big advantage of gtk2-perl over perl/tk is it has a constant, underlying library which has a cohesive design. Tk on the other hand is sort of a "hodge-podge" of widgets. The docs for gtk2-perl are still lacking, but you can see it coming together.

I envision that eventually there will be a very good GUI-designer program written for it, which will surpass Glade in functionality and bring it on par with Visual C/C++.

Tk is still easier for a beginner to learn, and gain the satisfaction of setting up a simple gui frontend for themselves, and Tk is still the closest thing to "cross-platform" out there. When someone wants Tk on Windows, it's an easy answer....ActiveState. Gtk2 is not so easy on Windows.

From the underlying libraries which are being developed, it seems that the choices are Gtk2 or Qt. Considering how popular Qt is (KDE etc), there sure isn't much interest in the perl bindings to the Qt libs. So that leaves Gtk2, which has very active development in the perl bindings.

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In reply to Re: good stable GUI library? by zentara
in thread good stable GUI library? by bcrowell2

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