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Visual Perl Tool for GTK/QT development?

Robin Smidsrød asks: I'm planning on making a full multimedia system with my Linux-box. In this process I need to make a GUI for selecting which files to insert into a playlist for my mp3-player. Since I've done a lot of coding in Perl, and both QT and GTK-bindings are available, I'd like to program my GUI in perl and GTK/QT. The program isn't really very advanced, but are there any tools available for (at least) setting up the GUI, or maybe a complete IDE? I've done several queries on Altavista, and I've searched Freshmeat too, but no luck. Can anybody help me?" Heck! Microsoft has Visual Basic, why can't we have "Visual Perl"?

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  1. Check out Glade by Edgy+Loner · · Score: 2

    Glade is a GUI development too for GTK. It can generate code for C, C++, Perl and Ada95. The code
    generation is implemented seperate from the GUI builder so new language bindings can be added easily. I've used it for small projects and it absolutely rocks. Check it out at
    glade.pn.org
    The other thing I've looked at is Kdevelop. It's very impressive, if a bit KDE/Qt centric. It's generic enough that you could do editing/compiling/CVS from it, and it's got real nice HTML documentation generation tools. It's at
    www.kedevelop.org. I think there's also a GUI designer for it. GIDE is for GTK/Gnome, it doesn't seem as mature as Kdevelop. It's at gide.pn.org.
    Enjoy