Slashdot: Perl Domination in CGI Programming?
Mike Stanczyk
stanczyk at pcisys.net
Thu Nov 4 15:41:04 CST 1999
Here's a question for you: Long time ago I used a gui builder program that
was written in tcl/tk and generated tcl/tk code for the gui as you built it.
Do you know of anything simlar that outputs perl/tk code?
Mike
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, HoltryF wrote:
> I've been following the development of Perl/Tk for more than two years,now.
> It's one of the more active areas of Perl development. It does indeed keep
> up with Tcl/Tk, but is a complete port to Perl. That is, all the Tcl code
> is replaced either by Perl or by C. I would take some exception to the
> statement that the syntaxes are tcl'ish. Actually, they're Perl object
> and hash reference notation. Most of the widgets and most of their options
> would be familiar to Tcl/Tk users, but this is an area where divergence is
> beginning to happen. New widgets are appearing frequently and new options are
> added to old widgets on occasion. The current release is Tk800.015, based on
> the Ousterhout Tk8.
>
> For those who are interested, there's a public mailing list for Perl/Tk at
> ptk at lists.stanford.edu. There is also a useful O'Reilly publication "Learning
> Perl/Tk" by Nancy Walsh.
>
> There's an excellent graphical Perl debugger, ptkdb, written in Perl/Tk, that's
> available from http://world.std.com/~aep/ptkdb.
>
> And one final thought: ActiveState (www.activestate.com) provides a Tk for
> their Perl for Win-doze. But the Tk available from CPAN will now build with
> VC++ nmake and seems to work better for me. Either way, you get native
> windows and virtually complete application portability.
>
>
> > -Jason
> >
> >
> >
> >-- End of excerpt from Jason Wells
>
> Frank Holtry
>
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