Hello There. Don't be so hard on Tk. The documentation is pretty obcure, but the package is easy to use, and it's easy to make things that work with almost no work at all. Don't compare it to VB or other visual gui-editors. Compare it to Java's swing and other layout-driven systems.
Things that nice in Tk: - handle all the parent-child connections behind the scenes. - accept anonymous functions as callbacks. (and more) - auto-set of variables. (you can tell it "put the result in this scalar", and no need to get the results from the widget) - uses minimum of words to describe the window. Not nice: - Documentation... - not automatically pretty. It can do pretty things, but you need to know design, while in native gui usually things look good by default. In general, I think that programmer should not do GUI, and leave the design work to the design people. Shmuel. -----Original Message----- From: Jason Elbaum Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 11:56 AM To: Perl in Israel Subject: [Israel.pm] Perl GUis Can anyone recommend for or against any of the GUi packages available for Perl? (See, for example, http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Perl_GUI_programming) My experience with Perl/Tk is that it's clumsy, unintuitive and too verbose, not to mention visually ugly. Is there anything better? I'm only interested in Unix/X-Windows, not MS-Win. Thanks, Jason Elbaum _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
