[MacPerl] Re : Facespan

[Philippe de Rochambeau <pr1@club-internet.fr>]

I agree that Facespan is expensive and slow, but there is a cheaper
alternative : it is called CrossBasic and only costs $25 I think. You
can send data to CrossBasic projects using the Do Script command and get
data back.

On the downside, as far as I am aware, CrossBasic does not let you
create windows, window items, etc. from MacPerl; i.e., you cant just
say:

use CrossBasic;

$window = new Window;

$window->addButton(...);

etc.

I personally plan to stick with Facespan for a while because:

- it cost me $249

- it lets you easily create grids which neither CrossBasic nor Tk let
you do (as far as I know)

- it lets you create neater interfaces than Tk

- you don't have to use arcane OO commands to program it

Perhaps one day Larry Wall will add built-in interface-creation
capabilities to Perl, as in Java. That would solve all our problems :-).

Philippe de Rochambeau

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