Re: [MacPerl] Prototyping Mac GUIs in MacPerl

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 17.23 -0400 1998.08.10, Mark Manning/Muniz Eng. wrote:
>However, Perl, MacPerl, and Perl for the IBM can handle (if I remember
>correctly) GUI interfaces.  There is an X Window interface available on
>CPAN as well as an OpenGL interface (which supposedly works on the IBM
>too).  If these work (I have never tried them) then Perl/MacPerl could
>still be the way in which to go.  :-)

Pretty much any GUI stuff for Unix perl requires Tk, including all the GL
stuff I know about.  There are some non-Tk GUI modules for Windows perl,
but likely those call Windows APIs.

So unless you have a liberal definition of "GUI" (or a conservative
definition of "portable" :-) there is no portable GUI for Perl.

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