Re: [PATCH perlfaq3] new question: GUIs

[email protected] (Robert Spier)
Newsgroups perl.perlfaq.workers
Message-ID <[email protected]>
It's late, I'm a little tired, so this may be nit-picky.

> +=head2 How can I make a GUI (Graphical User Interface) with Perl?

Isn't Perl implied?

> +There are a number of options, all available from your CPAN
> +mirror.
> +
> +For a cross platform GUI, there exist:
> +B<Tk> (of Tcl/Tk fame) is the most common and is provided as
> +standard under ActivePerl (available for Windows);
> +B<wxPerl> (the L<Wx> module) gives access to wxWindows;
> +B<Gtk> (known as L<Gtk-Perl> on CPAN) does the same for the
> +Gnome ToolKit;

Gtk is the Gimp ToolKit.

> +B<PerlQt> gives access to Qt.

The phrasings for the four GUI's above are kind of inconsistent.
Maybe a bunch of =items would be easier?

> +Under Mac OS X, you can write Cocoa programs in Perl using
> +the CamelBones library. See http://camelbones.sf.net/ for
> +details.

Also Win32::GUI

> +Not really graphical, there is the Curses library, available
> +from CPAN, which gives you pseudo graphical elements in a
> +terminal.

run-on sentence

> +A popular, very cross platform interface is that of a web
> +page. Your program can even embed a web server by using a
> +module such as HTTP::Daemon or POE::Component::Server::HTTP.

Or about six lines of code, based on whats in perlipc ;)

-R
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