Create a GUI for my Perl Program? Make Your Program Pretty?

[jdlev]

So right now, I am just running my programs through the command prompt. I'd like to beautify my program by giving it a graphic user interface. I have absolutely no idea where to begin looking for something like this? Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks :)

[davido]

Tk, Wx...

Or build an inward-facing web-app front end using something like Mojolicious or Dancer

...or if you want to experience 1986 all over again, Curses.

[tobyink]

Prima is one of the easiest GUI toolkits I've used for Perl, though it's a bit of a stretch to call it "pretty".

Wx is somewhat prettier, though a little harder to get started with.

I second davido's suggestion of skipping the GUI and going straight for a web-based API.

[wjw]

I have played about with Zenity a bit..if your are running some Gnome system it works pretty nicely for simple things and integrates well with Perl via Dialog::UI

Zenity Manual

There is some sample code here

Zenity test

[mtmcc]

This seems to me borderline meditation...

But in any case, in my view, command line applications are plenty beautiful.

From time to time however, I need to make my perl scripts accessible to people who are not comfortable with command line applications, and in that case, I use perl/tk

Perl/Tk is well documented, with good CPAN support, and is easy to adapt to multiple platforms. And is easy to learn, provided you have a basic understanding of OO programming.

I hope that's of some use!