Okay guys, what's the most painless way to make a gui-based program in perl? Running on X is essential, and running on windows is completely irrelevant. I would prefer to stay away from QT.
>>2 except CGI instead of mod_perl, otherwise maybe Tk if you don't mind your interface looking like shit.
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Anonymous2006-03-15 6:17
GTKs perl bindings arent too awful to work with. Well no worse than any other way to work with arsebackward GTK anyway.
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Anonymous2006-03-16 5:47
Tk is so backwards and butt ugly. GTK is kinda ok (albeit unstable) under Windows, as well as Linux but only if you have a fast computer, otherwise it's even slower than other toolkits. Qt looks and feels great but I've never developed for it.
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I said it was unstable under Windows, not Linux. What's amusing is that even though it was not one bit designed to run on top of GDI, the still underdeveloped Windows version outperform the Linux version, LOL X, LOL Lunix fanbois :P.
I think we'll have to agree to disagree. GTK on windows has been a nightmare for me, to get anything usable I ended up having several different versions installed since Gimp, Gaim and Xchat refused to share properly. Even then it crashed fairly often. Cant say I've had any problem on Linux apart from it being a tad slow on old hardware.
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Anonymous2006-03-17 12:21
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I haven't had problems with GAIM but I've heard it has serious issues with GIMP. I was able to share it among GAIM and something else I don't remember, but I mainly use it for GAIM, which seems to be sattisfactory. Perhaps I would run into similar problems if I tried GIMP+GAIM, for example.
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Anonymous2006-03-19 10:58
TK is easy.
GTK is ok but harder, yet more modern.
SDL is fun, you can write your own widgets :O
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Anonymous2006-03-19 14:51
VB is superior because they've written all the controls for you; so you don't have to waste your time fucking around with that shit.