[pm-h] Prima ... and more

[G. Wade Johnson]

I haven't seen Prima before. A comparison might be interesting. I think the
documentation idea is a good one. (Of course, documenting someone else's code
is not everyone's idea of fun.<grin/>) Do you have any other impressions of
Prima so far?

I have recently run across documentation for Gtk2-Perl
(http://forgeftp.novell.com/exam/documentation/html/index.html). That makes
three GUI toolkits for Perl that I've heard of.

It might be an interesting exercise to try to build the same small project
with all three to see how they each handle basic tasks. We could generate a
comparison showing strengths and weaknesses.

Any other opinions?

G. Wade

On Sat, 1 Oct 2005 21:33:12 -0500 (CDT)
Paul Archer <tigger at io.com> wrote:

> I've just run across a GUI toolkit called Prima (www.prima.eu.org). I was 
> wondering if anyone had evaluated/used it. I haven't used a GUI toolkit 
> before, so I don't know how it compares to Perl/TK, etc. What I do know is 
> that it was written specifically for Perl, and for what I want (display of 
> images) it's pretty fast.
> 
> One downside that I've noticed is that the documentation isn't that good 
> (from a "how to program in Prima" perspective). There is very extensive 
> documentation online, but it is all APIs--no "here's how to use this," or 
> screenshots of different widgets. That's a downside (at least if you're new 
> to GUI programming), but I think it could also have an upside. We've been 
> talking about giving back to the community. If we agree that it's a decent 
> toolkit (Wade, I'm counting on you here), then maybe we could contribute to 
> the docs. I was thinking about taking the outline of the O'Reilly "Learning 
> Perl/Tk" book and filling it in as "Learning Prima."
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
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