japhy has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Anthony, my co-worker, was using JavaBuilder today. One cool feature was the applet-display window, which allowed him to drag and drop widgets. It properly produced the code for the widgets.

Does such a tool exist for Perl/Tk? I think a GUI for making GUIs in Perl/Tk would be very helpful... I might even try my hand at it, when and if I have time (I have a full plate).

japhy -- Perl and Regex Hacker

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Re: Tk Tool
by bikeNomad (Priest) on Jun 21, 2001 at 09:01 UTC
    There is SpecTcl, and the old SpecPerl which can build Tk. I played with it a bit, but was never too happy with it.

    Guido is being worked on.

    Glade (for Gtk) seems to be much more usable.

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      Here's another for Gtk, seems to be under active development: PerlComposer.
      Haven't tried it myself, though.
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Re: Tk Tool
by strredwolf (Chaplain) on Jun 21, 2001 at 10:47 UTC
    I ususally muck around with Tcl/Tk's wish before translating it into Perl/Tk and ploping in code. I'm wondering if folks would write up a Perl version of wish... hmmm, phish, perhapse?

    --
    $Stalag99{"URL"}="http://stalag99.keenspace.com";

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      ptksh is shipped with ActiveState's version of the Tk module, I assumed it was standard.

      It gives you a command window and a Tk MainWindow so you can do things like:

      $b = $mw->Button(-text => "Hello")->pack;

      and a button appears.

      --
Kevin O'Rourke
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        ptksh is a standard part of Tk.

        In your preferred shell, type 

        perldoc ptksh

        [download]
        for more info.
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Re: Tk Tool
by jeroenes (Priest) on Jun 21, 2001 at 16:50 UTC
    Although it is not Tk but Gtk (minor change, only one char), you can do GUI-ish thingies with glade in perl mode. For all you win32 heads, gtk is supposed to run on win32 systems. I recall trying it out (linux), ending up with some POE code. Never looked at it again, I'm more a CLI kind of guy.

    Cheers,

    Jeroen

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