[Van-pm] September 8 Meeting - Speakers & Hosting

[Luke Closs]

<jan>GET BACK TO WORK!</jan>

2010/8/9 Kevin Jones <kvn.jns at gmail.com>:
> Is it just me, or did Jan just agree to give a talk on writing GUIs in perl?
> Kevin
>
> On 9 August 2010 19:42, Jan Dubois <jand at activestate.com> wrote:
>>
>> Andreas Hernitscheck wrote:
>> > There is also a gui editor, But IMHO perl and guis is nothing I would
>> > recommend at all.
>>
>> Why not?  Writing user-friendly GUIs in *any* language is hard work,
>> and I think it is actually easier in dynamic languages than in say C++. :)
>>
>> At ActiveState we write all GUIs for Perl tools with Tkx (a binding to
>> Tcl/Tk), which produces native GUIs for Windows, OS X and X-Windows,
>> and I know others are pretty happy with wxPerl as cross-platform GUI
>> toolkit as well.
>>
>> As for Tkx, I think the Perl-Critic GUI frontend included in the Perl
>> Dev Kit looks pretty cool ( you can download a free trial if you want
>> to try it out yourself, or just a demo on YouTube here:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgykR6tHsRU ).
>>
>> But anyways, what is the reason you think GUIs and Perl don't mix?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -Jan
>>
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