New Perl GUI

nealbutler writes: "This is up on perl.com, and I suppose a lot of people have seen it, but I think it's cool enough to warrant an article! wxWindows, the free C++ Crossplatform GUI framework is now available for perl! I've wxPython, and it rocks, so Tk/Perl's days may now be numbered...My main development platform is (unfortunately...) Win32, and Tk/Perl doesn't have half as much Win32 stuff as wxWindows does (e.g. accessing proper windows dialog boxes, etc.)."

Comments

Atricle doesn't do wxWindows justice.

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Having played around with wxPython, I can honestly say I will never go back to Tk or any other GUI interface.

What the article doesn't empahsise enough is that this is a cross platform GUI. The same code will work on win32, nearly all *nixes, plus apple and some wierd paltforms to boot.

The other thing the article doesn't impress strongly enough is how good the underlying C++ wxWindows library is. This is C++ GUI Nirvana, OO from the bottom up, crossplatform, native look and feel, a really useful set of builtin widgets, plus, perhaps most importantly a really well though out and easily extandable class structure.

From now on I will use nothing else, I may even give up programming curses.