So I've used Win32::GUI quite a bit, and been happy with it, but now I'm 
faced with a project that wants to be portable, multilingual, manipulate 
fonts and rich text, and wants to do printing.

Portability, for this project, means the big 3: Windows NT, Mac OS X, 
Linux.  Others would be nice -- Windows 9x, Windows CE, Mac OS 9, 
Solaris, but that'll be on an "if easy" basis.

So I do a survey of GUI packages:

Win32::GUI -- no portability

Tk -- Portable. Supports Unicode & fonts. No rich text support.  No real 
printing support, not even in TCL/Tk.  A few packages for specific 
platforms, not all platforms supported, no abstraction for portable 
printing APIs.  No rich text support.

Wx -- Portable.  Supports Unicode & fonts. Rich text support. Some 
printing support on some platforms, not fully abstracted.

Qt -- Portable.  Supports Unicode & fonts. Rich text support (looks like 
HTML or XML to some extent).  Abstracted printing support -- a few 
things are limited to a subset of platforms.

So Qt sounds the best.  Did I miss one of significance?

But now here's the kicker:

Perl::Qt hasn't been updated since 2003.  PyQt had a recent release in 
May 2008.  Should I go learn Python?

-- 
Glenn -- http://nevcal.com/
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