Re: [MacPerl] Prototyping Mac GUIs in MacPerl

[Brian McNett <brianmc@telebyte.net>]

>I believe what the guy is looking for is something like
>ProtoTyper (which is no longer around) or the kind of
>interface that you find in something like Visual FoxPro,
>FoxPro, FoxBase, etc....  That is to say - a drag and drop
>front piece which will generate the underlying code.
>MacPerl doesn't have it - you have to do everything by
>hand.  I, personally, happen to like MacPerl's method of
>doing this but I have also used the other and found it to be
>quick handy too.

Actually, no.  I'm NOT looking for a Drag&Drop interface for building the 
GUI, otherwise I'd be over on the RealBasic mailing list asking a 
completely different question :-)

It would also be very nice to be able to build the UI around a framework 
in C++, except for the fact that I'm not at all handy with C++, and our 
code is going to be open source (most frameworks have licenses which 
prohibit revealing their source code).

I think my friend Nathan is concerned about cross-platform issues.  He 
has to support code on Unix and Windows as well the Mac.  Also he later 
suggested this application is such that it would be very useful on a PDA. 
 I suggested Perl as being sufficiently cross-platform, before he made 
that point.  He wants to use Java, which I can't $$$ at the moment.

Perl/tk really would have been helpful in this situation.

Chris Nandor's comment:

>That is a very good and important point, however, consider that in some
>ways you can test Perl code more easily than C code.  Make a change, hit
>command-shift-R.

is very well put.  

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