console graphics

[LloydRice]

Can somebody recommend a console graphics package? I do mean graphics, not text, but I don't need the 3D complications of PDL-graphics.

[kschwab]

Tk:Canvas might work for you.

[james28909]

There is also WxPerl and Win32::GUI.

[LloydRice]

I'll check these out. Thanks.

[Discipulus]

Hello LoydRice,

in addition to Tk take a look to Prima too and to my biblitheca

L*

[BillKSmith]

The best solution is to choose one of the GUI frameworks already suggested. Unfortunately, they all have a steep learning curve. Under Windows, you can display almost any file by letting the shell choose the default viewer for the type of file. In your case, (system filename.pdf). I am not sure that this will meet your requirements, but it is so easy that it is worth a try.

[kcott]

G'day LloydRice,

You might like to look at the code I posted recently in "Re: Losing my memory".

That was dealing with another issue, but seems to have all the elements that you are looking for: "writing images"; "in a newly created window"; and Tk::Canvas handles "colored shapes and text" as well as images.

If you want to display images that are already on your system, take a look at Tk::FileSelect. And, Tk has documentation for all of the basic widgets.

[etj]

PDL can do 3D graphics (using OpenGL, and soon again VRML and then X3D). But it can also do plotting of 2D stuff using PDL::Graphics::Gnuplot, PDL::Graphics::PLplot, PDL::Graphics::PGPLOT, and at least the first one can produce PDF.