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I'm trying to decide which approach to use to add a GUI to my application.
The app works really well and uses the Perl Expect module on Unix (as there is no Perl Expect on Win32 it has to reside on Unix).
I want a simple GUI that looks at a number of database tables and allows me to query, add, delete and update against each one. I'm trying to work out which is the fastest way to get this built.
There seems to be a certain amount of overhead using Tk creating accessors and widgets. Is there an automated way within Perl where you can just point an app at a table and have it create a basic GUI for you?
I've been looking at JDeveloper and using it via Oracle's Business Components 4 Java to automatically create all the classes for me and then perhaps using perl Java.pm or Inline Java to call the Perl Expect code from the GUI.
Can anyone share their experience of doing something similar?
I'm just trying to avoid all the GUI creation grunt work. Simon
The app works really well and uses the Perl Expect module on Unix (as there is no Perl Expect on Win32 it has to reside on Unix).
I want a simple GUI that looks at a number of database tables and allows me to query, add, delete and update against each one. I'm trying to work out which is the fastest way to get this built.
There seems to be a certain amount of overhead using Tk creating accessors and widgets. Is there an automated way within Perl where you can just point an app at a table and have it create a basic GUI for you?
I've been looking at JDeveloper and using it via Oracle's Business Components 4 Java to automatically create all the classes for me and then perhaps using perl Java.pm or Inline Java to call the Perl Expect code from the GUI.
Can anyone share their experience of doing something similar?
I'm just trying to avoid all the GUI creation grunt work. Simon
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