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MyASPN >> Mail Archive >> perl-win32-users
perl-win32-users
Re: portable GUIs
by Huub Peters other posts by this author
Jun 19 2008 11:24PM messages near this date
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portable GUIs | perl 5.8 and TK
Glenn Linderman wrote:
>  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.
>    
I'm not sure why you say "some" printing support. What do you mean with 
not fully abstracted?
I've been using wxPerl for years and it has always served my printing needs.

I think wxPerl beats all the others.
>  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?
>    
Well, if you do, you might as well go for wxPython then... :-)

Really, give wxPerl a chance and I think it will suit all your needs.
(Especially in combination with wxGlade for fast and easy screen 
creation and code generation)

Cheers,
Huub Peters

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