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creating a GUI in perl (using TK) can be a complicated task

Believe me, writing your code from scratch is alot easier than trying to decipher the boilerplate code produced by the various tools to produce easy GUIs.

If you were going to go that route, Glade is probably your best bet.

The problem with boilerplate code is the obtuse naming conventions needed for creating callbacks. For instance instead of a callback called "do_what_button_1_does", you might get sub 1awer4567, and that makes it harder to track down little bugs.

In reality, the GUI creators are the ones that make it easy for simple gui's, but anything more complicated, you are better off writing it from scratch.

It takes time to learn either way. Either you can put in a few hours to learn from scratch, or you can put in a few hours learning the easy gui system, whatever it is.

If you are in a situation, where you are repeatedly making gui's from some simple recipe, and you want to automate it for non-experienced users, then the easy gui creators may be useful.

Just my opinion. :-)


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In reply to Re: Easier GUI by zentara
in thread Easier GUI by meirgold

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