Phoenix.pm: survey says: what's the best GUI toolkit, and how do I use it?

intertwingled intertwingled at qwest.net
Thu Feb 5 21:22:11 CST 2004


perl/tk ???

Scott Walters wrote:

>Hi folks,
>
>I need to pick one windowing toolkit for use on Mac, Wintel, and Unicecesez.
>
>Doug, a while back did a lovely presentation on wxWindows, most of which 
>I've forgotten, and I lost my handout. Doug, can do you have a link to that
>handout? Or a copy? I'd like to put it on the web, too. 
>
>But Mac people tell me that the MacOSX wxWindows does *not* work well, and
>it failed to even compile for a friend when I was going to have him do more
>specific testing. 
>
>Perhaps it is still rapidly evolving? Or has it leveled off?
>
>Tk is the most popular, and probably the most stable, but Doug has been
>frustrated by it and bitten by bugs, and it takes information encoded in
>strings rather than some sort of enum or symbolic constant, making the
>interface error prone and klunky. 
>
>Gtk is really popular, and Glade sounds nice, though I haven't been able to get
>it to compile for me on NetBSD. It is reasonably well ported, though it should
>be a lot more portable. The Gtk bindings for Perl just leave me scratching
>my head - they're documentation free, or else 100% automatically generated,
>completely unhelpful, method signature listings. Personal experience with Gtk at
>all? There are some tutorials care of Google and I'm going to play with it,
>of course. 
>
>X11::Motif is pretty nifty but out of date and Windows and Mac people
>would have to install a lot of stuff to get it to fly. And of course there
>is raw X11::Protocol =)
>
>SDL and SDL_perl is another option for simple UI stuf and easy access to GL,
>but again, the Perl bindings seem to be not-quite-there. I built and installed
>and it only comes back with errors on the sample programs. Someone else who
>installed it on Linux said they had to find a binary distribution but it
>did work.
>
>So, I'm very open at this point. I'll settle on something eventually, but early
>input might keep me from going off in a bad direction or keep me from missing
>a good one =) Any insights, comments, thoughts, or suggestions are most welcome. 
>
>Thanks,
>-scott
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