Well, Tk has it's good and bad sided. The big, big BIG bonus is: It works on every operating system i ever tested it without any major obstacles. But of course, it looks old fashioned (because it is) and it's quite clumsy to program a more complex interface.

If you want to design UIs with Tk, you can try ZooZ. It's a few years since i used it last, but it worked back then.

As for other user interfaces: There are modules for Gtk2 and Gtk3. I wrote a simple example 944371 that uses GTK3 plus WebKit to make a simple one-purpose webbrowser. (Most of the article actually deals with fixing MakeMaker to work correctly in 64bit Linux).

In theory there are also some Qt bindings, but as far as i know, they haven't been updated for quite a while.

Have you looked at the widget demo that comes with Tk? It contains radio button and dropdown list examples. Just type "widget" at a command prompt if you have Tk installed, or look in the Tk source/demos directory for the widget demo.

Other than Tk, I also like Gtk2 for GUI's.

Just in case you have a hard time wrangling the code out of the demo's, here are a couple of simple examples.

Radiobuttons:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Tk;

my $mw = MainWindow->new;

my $rb = 'first button';

my $rb1 = $mw->Radiobutton(-text => "Button One",
                            -value => 'button1',
                            -variable => \$rb)->pack;

my $rb2 = $mw->Radiobutton(-text => "Button Two",
                            -value => 'button2',
                            -variable => \$rb)->pack;

my $b1 = $mw->Button(-text => 'Show', -command => [ \&showRB, \$rb ])-
+>pack;

MainLoop;

sub showRB
{
     print "Arg list is @_ \n";
     my $state_ref = shift;
     my $state = $$state_ref;
     print "$state\n";
     
     $mw->messageBox(-title => 'Status',
                     -type  => 'OK',
                     -message  => "Status is :$state:.");
}
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#!/usr/bin/perl 
use warnings;
use strict;
use Tk;

my $top = MainWindow->new;
$top->geometry('200x200+100+100');

# Menubar
my $menu = $top->Frame(-relief => 'raised', -bd => 2);

my $menu_pulldown = $menu->Menubutton(-text => "Test",
                 -underline => 0);

$menu_pulldown->command(-label => "Exit",
                     -command => sub { exit 0 });
# Cascade Menu
$menu_pulldown->cascade(-label => "Cascade",
                        -underline => 1,);
            
my $newmenu = $menu_pulldown->cget(-menu)->Menu;

$menu_pulldown->entryconfigure('last', -menu => $newmenu);

$newmenu->command(-label => "CascadeCommand",
       -command => sub { exit 0 });

$menu->pack(-side => 'top', -fill => 'x');

$menu_pulldown->pack(-side, 'left');

MainLoop;
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I use a lot of Perl/Tk, and my favorite resource is here and my second favorite is here. and yes, it does support dropdowns and radiobuttons. and it has several very nice extensions to it that I love to use.

The first link you provide is to a site which illegally publishes ebooks from O'Reilly.

I'm not so sure about that anymore. I recently heard a radio interview with the head of O'Reilly, still Tim O'Reilly I presume, and he said that the illegal content out there was actually helpful to them, by making people aware that such resources exist. So even though they may be technically illegal, I don't see much prosecution of these sites. Of course, this is just from my memory of what I heard, and may just be my wishful thinking. :-)

There are quite a few sites with O'Reilly content on them, some with advertising for various things, so it would seem their lawyers are letting it slide, or are complicit with it.

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I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth.
Old Perl Programmer Haiku ................... flash japh

I have a legal copy of the ebook, and that is easier to search than the copy on my kindle, and i'm pretty sure that other countries have differeing copyright laws, and it my not be copyright there.

--linuxkid


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Last I checked there is nothing that will produce perl GTK code for you.

But it is not difficult to translate the generated C code to Gtk2.pm. The APIs are similar.

But it is not difficult to translate the generated C code to Gtk2.pm. The APIs are similar.

The APIs are identical only the calling convention is different, but there is also no point in doing the translation yourself, it misses the point of using Glade, the idea behind Glade is for it to generate code for you
Glade::PerlGenerate
glade2perl - Builds Gtk-Perl sources from a Glade file
glade2perl-2 - Builds Gtk2-Perl sources from a Glade-2 file
Glade2::Widget - Creates a new widget from a .glade file. It accepts the following parameters.
Gtk2::GladeXML - Create user interfaces directly from Glade XML files.
Gtk2::GladeXML::Simple - A clean object-oriented interface to Gtk2::GladeXML

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