I heard (read, actually) somewhere that TK does not intigrate as well with Windows as
does Win32::GUI. That is, it is more difficult to maipulate other windows and objects
on the desktop in TK.
I don't have first-hand experience with TK to support this however.
-Glenn
At 10:08 AM 10/26/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Plus....
>
>TK has the look of Linux and Win32::GUI has.... well.... the windows
>look. If you
>ask me TK looks out of place on a windows machine.
>
>David Hiltz wrote:
>
>> > This may be a silly question and please let me know if it is but I was
>> > wondering what the major differences where [besides syntax] between Perl/TK
>> > and Win32::GUI. Obviously, the latter is only available on Windows but are
>> > there any other reasons to use one over the other on the Windows platform?
>>
>> Tk is more complete and is better documented ("Learning Perl/Tk"). I
>> think Win32::GUI is still fairly new and does not support some of the
>> features of Tk. Win32::GUI is also unstable in certain areas. The latest
>> version 4?? broke some of my code.
>>
>> As for look and feel I think Tk looks just fine. I like the fact that
>> I can run the same code up on my Sun workstation.
>>
>> I'll probably come back and visit Win32::GUI in 1/2 year to see how it
>> has matured.
>>
>> -----------
>> David Hiltz
>> Unix System and Network Administrator
>> Northeast Fisheries Science Center
>> ######&@&######
>
>--
>Michael Kangas
>Anlon Systems, Inc.
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
<->-<->-<->-<->-<->-<->-<->-<->-<->-<->-<->-<->-<->-<->-<->-<->-<->-<->-<->-<->-<->
Glenn J. Christman, WD8OMW, MCSE, MCP+I Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Analysts International Phone: 330-796-1633
Cleveland, Ohio
