Octavian Rasnita wrote:
>  If you need your application to look and feel like a Windows native 
>  application, the only choices as far as I know are WxPerl and
>  Win32::GUI. If you also need it to be portable, it remains WxPerl.

Thank you for replying.  :-)


I've been kicking this one around for many years, trying to find a good
GUI toolkit that is multiplatform, well designed/ documented, and
preferably Perl.  Along the way, I've made a couple of explorations of
C#, .NET, etc..  The recently free VCSEE 2005 and 2008 tools are
tempting lures, as are the many C#, .NET, CLR, WinForms, etc., books.
Unfortunately, very few M$ centric books tend to be of the caliber I
desire.  I am also leery of mono after experiencing other OSS
implementations of M$ technologies.  I do see the advantages of C#, but
Perl is still my preferred language.  My requirement for free/OSS
precludes ActiveState's Perl Development Kit and PerlNET.  It's a
tangled morass, with no clear winner.


Another idea for meeting my previously unstated need for a stand-alone
GUI application (e.g. no Internet connection) would be a self-contained
web application and server running on localhost.  I use WampServer for
Drupal testing, and it works very nicely.  It's been a few years since I
played with Apache/ *SQL/ Perl, but do recall that HTML controls were
very primitive and the end result was orders of magnitude slower than a
native GUI.  Are there better WWW controls for Apache/ Perl/ CGI/
mod_perl now?  Any thoughts on AJAX?


TIA,

David

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