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Tk (804.027)

Perl Tk is certainly outdated. However, with good documentation via books like Mastering Perl it is relatively easy to create a simple multi-platform application. Porting to Mac, Linux, and Windows is also trivial via tools like ActiveState's PDK toolkit PerlApp program. However, without a lot of trial and error, it is difficult to get anything like an attractive looking program.

The Tk core appears to be no longer under development although users do contribute modules from time to time.

I am now switching to ActiveState's Tkx, which allows all recent Tck/Tk widgets to be used, and also seems to be just cleaner although the syntax is sometimes unintuitive. Converting a Tk app to Tkx is not very difficult either. Wx also seems to be gaining popularity as an alternative to Tk although there the perl specific documentation seems lacking.

Laurence Anthony - 2007-11-17 04:38:32
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