>>>>> "JT" == John Tsangaris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JT> Have any great advances been made with a perl gui which can be JT> used on multiple platforms? I have to say, I just wrote my first JT> ASP.NET application in C# over the last 3 weeks, and while I had JT> many complaints on having to write several lines of code to JT> accomplish what I could have in 1 line of perl, as well as JT> shortcuts that I could have taken in perl which don't even seem to JT> exist in C#, I must say that I actually enjoyed the WYSIWYG JT> editor. JT> If I could write standalone programs for windows in perl, and be JT> able to share those programs with my non-perl collegues at work JT> without over head of them having to install perl separately, would JT> work wonders for general acceptance of the language. I understand JT> that I can bundled perl itself as an executable. But the WYSIWYG JT> IDE and easy to use executables just seem to make the language JT> more palatable for knowledgeable, non-technical users. there are several cross platform gui libs for perl. the ones that come to mind are perl/tk, wx (was wxwindows) and perl/qt. i think perl/gtk is also around. and there is at least one gui editor called glade and i think there are others. you just have to look around cpan and the net for these. they don't come with perl nor are there one primary standard way (timtowtdi as always). then you can have your eyecandy and such while also using perl. uri -- Uri Guttman ------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------- http://www.stemsystems.com --Perl Consulting, Stem Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding- Search or Offer Perl Jobs ---------------------------- http://jobs.perl.org _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
