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It's been a while since I looked at this, but I wound up choosing to use Tk because, IMHO, the docs were better. Now that my app has grown in complexity, I do seem to be finding some bugs and some holes in the docs.

GTk looked very interesting and I got some simple demos working. Docs were OK, but I found them confusing, as I didn't really have much GUI hacking experience.

I found pretty much the same things when I checked out WxPerl. WxPerl is nice because I could make native GUIs for Mac OS X (pTk and Gtk-perl require X11). I found the docs for WxPerl to be very lacking. There was a wiki, but it had been targeted by spammers and I couldn't find much useful information there. The philosophy seemed to be that one should be able to read the native documentation and figure out how to call the library from perl.

Of course, it's been nearly a year, and things may have changed. Good luck.

TGI says moo

In reply to Re: good stable GUI library? by TGI
in thread good stable GUI library? by bcrowell2

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