Perl and XUL app

[CColin]

Hi, I've been looking at options for building a standalone app which is a GUI on top of existing Perl scripts to optimise a combination of being futureproof/ being cross-platform/ looking good. A most interesting option seems to be XUL but I cannot find many examples of if/how to do this. Would appreciate some guidance from an experienced monk in this art on whether I am barking up the right tree in terms of potential end results and the best place to look for resources on doing this in perl?

[dreadpiratepeter]

A quick google search shows Cyclone3 a Perl/XUL framework
A quick CPAN search shows,
• XUL:::App
• XUL::Node
and others
Having, never worked with XUL, I can't vouch for any of them

[CColin]

Thanks for looking - I did look at 2 of the below but they seem to be server side rather than for a standalone app. Also scant documentation, would also be good to hear from someone who has trod this path...

[ForgotPasswordAgain]

What is a "standalone app", exactly? What is a "server"? Could you not think of a GUI app as having server and client components? GUI apps generally have a main loop and serve up responses to requests ("events", which are special kinds of requests).

[patspam]

I really dig XUL, but have a look at wxPerl as an alternative for cross-platform GUI apps. It's probably going to end up in Strawberry or Chocolate Perl at some stage (which will help with Windows deployment). It's what we're using to build Padre.