Just out of curiosity, I know there is a perl GTK class to do GTK widgets from within perl (see Pronto for how far you can go [1]), but is there also a perl QT library? -Rob References: [1] http://muhri.net/pronto/ > On 20010518.1022, Cory Petkovsek said ... > > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 03:33:02PM -0700, Bob Miller wrote: > > Cory Petkovsek wrote: > > > > > 2) visually audit the thumbnails > > > solution: > > > I'm thinking what I would like ideally is a script that could open a > > > graphic then wait for one of several keys. Left/right arrows would > > > slide-show through the array of filenames. up/down arrows would > > > switch between the various sizes (thumbnail/thumb2/master/original) > > > of the same pic. Space would print the filename to the console (to > > > be redirected to a file). Esc would quit. > > > > I suggest you use a web browser as your user interface. If it were > > me, I'd write a CGI script that builds an HTML page that includes the > > images and a set of radio buttons to allow me (or other users) to > > pick. Have the form's SUBMIT button reinvoke the CGI script to record > > the choice(s) to a log file and move to the next image set. Write a > > separate perl script that reads the log file and does what it says. > > Sorry Bob, a web browser is too slow and clunky for the quantity of pictures. Read >on though.. > > > Perl/Tk can do it. It won't be straightforward > > > > > Once such an image is loaded, will the perl script still be > > > listening on the keyboard? > > > > Perl/Tk programs are event-based, if I remember right, so you can > > define a keyboard event handler. > > Yes!! pTk is it! I've already got it loading jpegs, and responding to >up/down/left/right arrow keys! This is like programming candy! Years ago I >programmed win3.1 programs. It was a nightmare just to pop up a window. perl/tk is >sooo easy! and very quick! > > > > > > Seth recently converted some CPAN modules into packages, I tried to > > but didn't get it working. (I still don't really grok Debian, I'm > > sorry to say.) If you like packages, you might as well take the time > > to use them. > Thanks seth! I grabbed dh-make-perl, and made my first debianized cpan module: > > dh-make-perl --build --cpan Tk::JPEG > built a package in my current dir. I suppose I could have used the --install switch >as well. > > Perl and perl/tk blows my mind! Anything one wants to do one can do in C. However >with Perl, half of what you want to do is already done! > >
