This is rather late because I only follow the digest, but I've looked
into Perl/TK a bit with Cygwin.
Initially I found it all to be fairly disappointing, not least because
when I finally got things "working" Perk/TK gave limited widgets and was
prone to crashes.
My current solution is to use Perl Tcl::Tk. The subtle difference is
that Perl controls the interface though TCL. I've found it much more
satisfying and much more stable. One of the biggest advantages is access
to a lot more widgets because you can get at any widget you can get
under TCL/TK. I am using VTCL to graphically build my GUI forms, the the
Perl script "executes the TCL interface" with TCL::TK.
Getting it all going is prety straight forward, install Cygwin's TCL TK
(which uses the x-server) then then the perl packages off CPAN compile
out of the box (see my earlier cygwin post about the snit gotcha).
http://vkonovalov.ru/cgi-bin/perl-tcltk-wiki.cgi/
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-10/msg00221.html
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.tcltk/
http://vkonovalov.ru/vtcl-usage/Using_vtcl_for_creating_Tcl-Tk_GUI_for_Perl.html
Regards,
Jason
Michael Kairys wrote:
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It's all pretty disappointing, compared to ActiveState's
implementation, which looks much better and requires no setup, no
extraneous directories on my path, and no otherwise uneeded daemons.
A little research reveals this issue has been around for a while and
is apparently well-known by everyone but me :)
From: "Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge
dot net>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:54:19 -0600
Subject: Re: PerlTK under Windows
References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
However I'd like PerlTk to fall back to using Windows widgets much like
rxvt will do a Windows window if there is no X server to connect to.
Just how rxvt manages to use both X11 and Win32GUI is unique, as has
been discussed before at length. Don't expect anything else X11 based
to do that on Cygwin.
perl-Tk is X11-based because it *does not compile* on Cygwin for Win32.
PTC.
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