Re: GUI interfaces

[Andrew Pimlott <gtk-perl-list andrew pimlott net>]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 07:38:05PM +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> * Andrew Pimlott <gtk-perl-list andrew pimlott net> [2004-02-20 07:44]:
> > I'm really surprised at this opinion.  I think Tcl is a perfect
> > botch, but Tk is beautiful, at least for relatively simple
> > interfaces.  This elegance carries over well to Perl/Tk, even
> > if it is not quite as seamless as in Tcl.  What don't you like
> > about it?
> 
> Stuff like instatiating a button by calling a factory method on
> its container, instead of calling the button classes constructuor
> and packing it. Passing labels by reference and changing them by
> changing the referee. More stuff like this I can't remember off
> hand, which effectively all makes it really hard to refactor bits
> for generality as you go.

I suppose this is all true, and I wouldn't want to "scale up" a Tk app.
But these features are all terribly handy when you're just throwing
together a basic UI.  At least, this is what I remember from my
experience; I haven't used Perl/Tk in years.

Andrew