Paul Kraus wrote: I
wanted to avoid using html because I think it's a lot more work on my end to learn html/mason/php etc. Then it would be to just program it using perl.
I would suggest that Tk probably has a higher learning curve than the HTML you would need to know to get the job done. If you use straight CGI (no mason, no PHP) then really you only need to know to print a proper header before sending output and the setup of the server which is fairly easy for someone that is already admin'ing a *nix box. I would also think that HTML and learning to program for the web will get you further these days than the Tk experience. (Don't take my suggestions as critical of Tk, these are just the trends I tend to see...). As someone already suggested, if you do it in Tk you end up essentially writing a browser, and in this case your users, not only yourself, will have a higher learning curve as presumably they already know how to use a standard browser.
Any suggestions? Is TK the way to go? Has anyone done anything similar?
To me Tk is not the way to go, unless you are already very familar with X programming. The amount of HTML you would need to know you can probably learn in 2 hours (at most a day) given what I know of your Perl ability from the list. The amount you need to know about cgi programming you can learn from reading the docs for CGI.pm and posting any questions you have to the beginners-cgi list.
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