Question

I’d like to write some interactive GUIs in Perl. I’ve used TclTk but it looks dated. I’ve written QT code for C++, but the PerlTk module hasn’t had a release in several years. Googling around I see other possible options.

What are good packages for this, including basic windowing, menus, drawing canvas, scrollbars, and so on.

Answer 1

Gtk2 has glade2 which can write out an XML file usable by Gtk2::GladeXML. Here is an example of how to bundle the XML with the app in the same file.

I misread the question at first. I thought you wanted a GUI editor for making GUIs (which is what glade2 is). You can also create GUIs using Gtk2 without glade2:

#!/usr/bin/perl  use strict; use warnings; use Gtk2;  Gtk2->init;  my $window = Gtk2::Window->new; my $vbox   = Gtk2::VBox->new; my $label  = Gtk2::Label->new('Hello World'); my $button = Gtk2::Button->new('Press me');  $window->add($vbox); $vbox->add($label); $vbox->add($button);  $window->set_default_size(200, 200); $window->signal_connect(     destroy => sub {         Gtk2->main_quit;     } );  my $i = 0; $button->signal_connect(     clicked => sub {         $label->set_text('button pressed ' . ++$i . ' times');     } );  $window->show_all;  Gtk2->main;