Re: [MacPerl] Re : MacPerl/Tk, FaceSpan, Send Data and friends

[Vincent Nonnenmacher <dpi@pobox.oleane.com>]

 Georg_Bauer@muensterland.org (Georg Bauer) wrotes :

>Philippe de Rochambeau <pr1@club-internet.fr> wrote:
>
>> I think that Facespan is a better alternative to Tk as an interface
>designer
>> for MacPerl on the Mac.
>
>Sorry to say that, but FaceSpan is awfully slow. I wouldn't like to use
>that.

I don't think you get the point here. Probleme is not that facespan is slow
or not. It would just provide a very nice UI to triger perl scripts
executions instead of counting on a shell like interface to launch them and
provide options and parameters.

I think it will broaden the MacPerl usage. What could be interesting is as
Philipe said wil be top provide a 2 way applescript communication between
facespan and MacPerl in order to quickly code drop shell like mac
Application that use perl script as the core engine and facespan as I/O GUI
counterpart (options, feedback etc).


> Actually I would like to have two options:
>
>- PerlTK as the portable option to write programs that should run on
>other boxes

it is tru that Perl/Tk is a very good option. But there so much support for
Tcl counter part and the perl/Tk is always too much behind. Tck/Tk 8.0 look
very good and muhc more mac like but what is the status of a macPerl/Tk
stuff ?

>
>- Something like MacApp for Perl (built on the Toolbox-bindings) as the
>powerfull Mac-native option to build full Mac applications

You could do that already in macApp, but it will be exactely the same inter
application communication stuff to talk between macPerl and an
macApp/pwerplant/dropshell like application and the facespan front end.

>
>I don't like my program to communicate with it's UI via AppleEvents.
>That's far too much like shooting your own foot with a Patriot.


I think we are talking here about very little UI requirements especially
changing script preferemce/options. In this area applescript communication
to display a self running dilaog/view and grab its parameters on the close
event is irrelevant for the speed issue against a full integrated toolbox
call inside your perl script.


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