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Leon Brocard (aka acme) is an orange-loving Perl eurohacker with many varied contributions to the Perl community, including the GraphViz module on the CPAN. YAPC::Europe was all his fault. He is still looking for a Perl Monger group he can start which begins with the letter 'D'.

Journal of acme (189)

Tuesday March 23, 2004
12:53 PM

Gtk2-Perl

[ #18026 ]
So everyone has been worrying about high level languages on the desktop.

Well I decided to have a play with the Gtk2 Perl bindings last week or so. It took me a while to get the hang of how things went on, but overall I really like how easy it is to put things together.

I decided to write a sample app using GLADE. I created a window, added a text field, a button, and a list view, and saved it as XML. Then I wrote a program which uses Parse::CPAN::Authors, reads in the GLADE file using Gtk2::GladeXML, and puts in the right hooks. See the source. See a screenshot. Hey presto, a small GUI interface to search the CPAN author list. I really liked how easy it was to put together. GUI in Perl isn't dead. Maybe its time has come...


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  • I did some GTK programming by hand in both C and Perl a year or two ago and I found it very productive.

    I might try GTK2 again, the only concern I have with perl/gtk is the long list of dependancies involved - if I could build an easy to deploy bundle using GTK2 and Perl I would choose that over QT/C++ which I am currently looking at for writing GUI applications.

    ..of course I will probably try and do both as I want to learn C++ properly (i.e. write real code to do real jobs, its the only way to learn) an

    --

    @JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
    print reverse @JAPH;

  • Very nice. Why didn't you use Gtk::SimpleList? I'm not familiar with Gtk but the interface looks simpler

    acme said...
    I really liked how easy it was to put together. GUI in Perl isn't dead. Maybe its time has come...

    It's very much alive with Wx [sf.net]. I've knocked up a quick port of your app to wxPerl. Screenshots on Windows [simonflack.com] and Linux [simonflack.com] are available as well as the source [simonflack.com]

    --
    --simonflk
    • That looks pretty good. I'd given up on Wx as I've found it hard to install and there wasn't Glade for it. Looks like wxGlade helps a lot in this respect ;-)
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