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Re: Prima vs. Tk
by hossman (Prior) on Aug 23, 2003 at 00:48 UTC
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I've never used Prima, but your post prompted my curiousity. Here's a few things I found while skimming the docs...
- Prima::Edit seems to be a fairly full featured text editing box
- The Prima::Object docs mention a profile_default method, and a profile_check_in method, along with teh concepts of a default profile per Object type, and custom profiles, and merging profiles ... but it wasn't immediately clear to me how all of that works, but It looks like it would be possible to define all of your resources once (or maybe once per class) and then get them each time you create an object.
- Prima::Timer looks like a fairly useful timer class
- Prima::FrameSet looks like it provides basic frame support
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Re: Prima vs. Tk
by dbwiz (Curate) on Aug 23, 2003 at 10:55 UTC
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Re: Prima vs. Tk
by rinceWind (Monsignor) on Aug 23, 2003 at 09:59 UTC
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One of the great advantages of Tk is its great availability across a wide variety of platforms.
- Does Prima work on Windows?
- Is there a ppm distribution for it? (Activestate don't seem to have it)
I guess if it does work on windows, someone could easily build and make available a ppm distribution (CrazyInsomniac?)
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It does work on Windows. According to the developers, it works on Win32, X, and OS/2. However, there doesn't seem to be a PPM, although there are Windows binaries on their site.
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Re: Prima vs. Tk
by aquarium (Curate) on Aug 23, 2003 at 14:12 UTC
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afaik prima does not come standard with any major perl distribution yet. if that is the case, then there'll be a big issue for many people to install yet another module when most want instant gratification. the worst thing i hate about dependency modules/packages is that you have to stay in proper sync, ie the right version of a module to go with your software. | [reply] |
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Answers (Prima vs. Tk)
by dk (Chaplain) on Aug 24, 2003 at 14:37 UTC
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- Editable RT-control: doesn't exist. One can hack Prima::TextView so it would accept keystrokes - all
of the underlying rendering mechanics already there, so it's not the real problem. The real problem is to design a viable API - file format, markup model, interface methods, shortcut keys, etc etc.
- Global options - AFAIU Tk fiddles with XRDB, which is hard to incorporate into a portable toolkit. However, there is a limited set of options readable from XRDB, like,
Prima*Widget*color: #003000
- Tk::DoOneEvent == $::application-> yield
- Any Prima::Widget descendant can be used for grouping,
if the functionality you need is to group the children widgets inside.
And yes - Prima does compile on 5.8.0 .
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That's right. Prima::TextView written entirely in perl.
The only reason it isn't editable is because the author didn't have a need for it (Prima::Edit is all he needed i suppose)
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Re: Prima vs. Tk
by barrachois (Pilgrim) on Aug 23, 2003 at 20:58 UTC
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barrachois wrote:
>> one of the developers on their mailing list was kind enough to let me know that it doesn't yet compile under Perl 5.8.0.
Strange.
I first read about Prima here about 15 minutes ago. Intrigued, I downloaded Prima-1.10-MSWin32-580.zip , unzipped it, ran the script ms_install.pl, changed directory to C:\Perl\site\lib\examples and tried several examples ... all in less time than it took me to write this up.
I have perl, v5.8.0 Binary build 806 on my machine.
True, I did not try to get the sources and compile Prima, so I cannont vouch for that :-).
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Not true. I built from source here on 5.8.0.
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