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Post #235,479
by altmann
11/22/05 4:01:15 AM
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New Perl/Tk
It won't be terribly pretty (I think for simple UI it blends in with the system look-n-feel pretty well these days), but it will work.

There's a good O'Reilly book on it too.
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Chris Altmann
Post #235,481
by pwhysall
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11/22/05 6:07:14 AM
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New That's fearfully ugly.
But I'll give it a go. I suspect there may be user resistance, though.

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Post #235,491
by Another Scott
11/22/05 7:59:49 AM
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New Maybe wxPerl.
[link|http://wxperl.sourceforge.net/|wxPerl]. No experience with it myself and it may be pretty young (v. 0.26).

Luck!

Cheers,
Scott.
Post #235,516
by broomberg
11/22/05 10:40:30 AM
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New I've used it.
Standard painful build up a GUI a button/canvas/whatever at a time.

GUI programming is a royal pain in the ass when you don't have a screen painter / code generator.
Post #235,522
by pwhysall
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11/22/05 11:48:11 AM
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New I want it really simple
At the level of "my $filename = show_file_selector_dialogue();" sort of thing.

If I'm going to get into anything more I might as well learn Java, C++ or C# and at least have something on my CV to show for it.

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Post #235,526
by tonytib
11/22/05 12:10:11 PM
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New Sounds like you need some Tiles
Yes, straight Tk does look, well, [link|http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/screenshots/unix.html|outdated], but it can look like [link|http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/screenshots/windowsxp.html|this on Windows XP] when using the [link|http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/|Tile theme engine]

I've done a fair amount of Tkinter (Tk for Python) programming; it's been pretty easy for me. Tkinter has Open/Save dialogs, message boxes, etc, and there are higher level components available, at least for Python.

I haven't used Tiles yet, but in a week or two, I hope to give Tiles a shot to improve the appearance of some existing Tkinter code.

I may eventually move to wxWindows; it does seem faster and has a nice grid widget, but the learning curve is definitely higher.

Tony
     Perl GUI programming for a complete idiot - (pwhysall) - (26) - Nov. 22, 2005, 03:47:52 AM EST
         Perl/Tk - (altmann) - (5) - Nov. 22, 2005, 04:01:15 AM EST
             That's fearfully ugly. - (pwhysall) - (4) - Nov. 22, 2005, 06:07:14 AM EST
                 Maybe wxPerl. - (Another Scott) - (3) - Nov. 22, 2005, 07:59:49 AM EST
                     I've used it. - (broomberg) - (2) - Nov. 22, 2005, 10:40:30 AM EST
                         I want it really simple - (pwhysall) - (1) - Nov. 22, 2005, 11:48:11 AM EST
                             Sounds like you need some Tiles - (tonytib) - Nov. 22, 2005, 12:10:11 PM EST
         Make it a web application. :-) -NT - (ben_tilly) - (19) - Nov. 22, 2005, 10:06:15 PM EST
             Would need a server for that. -NT - (pwhysall) - (18) - Nov. 23, 2005, 01:17:37 AM EST
                 Trivial. Lots of frameworks build one right in. - (ben_tilly) - (17) - Nov. 23, 2005, 09:47:35 PM EST
                     It's not the software, silly. - (pwhysall) - (16) - Nov. 24, 2005, 01:34:09 AM EST
                         I can't do anything about your corporate politics - (ben_tilly) - Nov. 24, 2005, 01:56:15 AM EST
                         what please may I, etc comes in to it. - (boxley) - (13) - Nov. 24, 2005, 01:52:41 PM EST
                             If you're gonna do that, seaside/squeak is even easier - (tuberculosis) - (12) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:41:03 AM EDT
                                 How did you get from Perl to Java??? -NT - (ben_tilly) - (8) - Nov. 24, 2005, 09:20:34 PM EST
                                     Todd forgot that left turn at Albuquerque. -NT - (Another Scott) - Nov. 24, 2005, 09:32:05 PM EST
                                     He's got a kind of co-dependency thing going on, I think... -NT - (admin) - (2) - Nov. 24, 2005, 09:58:07 PM EST
                                         I think I'll just let folks wallow in their ignorance - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Aug. 21, 2007, 12:37:41 PM EDT
                                             Please don't. Wallowing gets old. -NT - (Another Scott) - Nov. 25, 2005, 12:09:24 AM EST
                                     Resin is primarily used as a servlet container - (tuberculosis) - (3) - Aug. 21, 2007, 12:37:33 PM EDT
                                         Ah. I see. -NT - (ben_tilly) - Nov. 24, 2005, 11:54:26 PM EST
                                         just write a 2 line servlet to go do perl - (boxley) - (1) - Nov. 25, 2005, 11:01:25 AM EST
                                             Might as well install apache/mason - (tuberculosis) - Aug. 21, 2007, 12:38:32 PM EDT
                                 WTF? - (pwhysall) - (2) - Nov. 25, 2005, 01:32:25 AM EST
                                     I wouldn't know since I haven't needed that - (ben_tilly) - Nov. 25, 2005, 12:16:50 PM EST
                                     What GUI toolkit do you know? - (tuberculosis) - Aug. 21, 2007, 12:38:27 PM EDT
                         Been there, that's why I used wxPerl - (broomberg) - Nov. 25, 2005, 11:53:40 AM EST

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