On Thu, 10 May 2007, Roode, Eric wrote: > Can Tkx (or Tcl in general) use custom-made Windows widgets developed > in .NET and loaded via DLL?
I don't think you can do this. There is a .NET binding for Tcl called TclBridge that allows you to use .NET objects from Tcl, but I don't think you can combine .NET widgets with Tcl widgets without some additional C code hacking. You can use .NET forms and stuff from Perl using PerlNET from the Perl Dev Kit. The docs contain a trivial example to display a WinForms dialog: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/PDK/7.0/PerlNET_overview.html#perlnet_overview_winforms In general it will probably be easier to design the UI using Visual Studio and one of the forms designers in C# or VB.NET. You can still implement the event callbacks in Perl using PerlNET with some creative hackery. > I will say this about the documentation for Tkx and Tcl::Tk: They both > seem to assume the programmer knows Tcl and/or is migrating from > Perl/Tk. They seem to have little self-contained documentation for the > programmer who is just starting out, or who is migrating from an > incompatible toolset (e.g. Win32::GUI). This is indeed a problem. Note that the Tcl::Tk module explicitly tries to emulate the API of the old Tk module so that you can continue to use the existing PerlTk books etc. Unfortunately the implementation of Tcl::Tk covers only about 80% [1] of the existing Tk APIs, so you will still run into areas where you need to figure things out from the Tcl docs. Cheers, -Jan [1] Beware that I essentially just made up this number based on a few comments I heard from people trying to use Tcl::Tk. _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list ActivePerl@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
