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- From: wiml@stein.u.washington.edu (William Lewis)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
- Subject: Re: X interface for perl programs
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- Date: 4 Jan 93 21:45:22 GMT
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- rutt@paradise.mti.sgi.com (John C. Ruttenberg) writes:
- >Has anyone made a GUI "toolkit" that perl programs can use? The best thing
- >would be simple enough to use in trivial little perl programs and would make a
- >certain class of users pretty happy.
-
- Try looking into Wafe. It's a program that basically provides a Tcl
- interface to a widget set (it's distributed expecting the Athena widget
- set, but the docs claim it's easy to use any widget set.) You communicate
- with the Wafe process via pipes. The distribution contains several examples
- of Perl programs using Wafe to provide a graphical interface. One nice
- feature is that since it's a separate process, your perl script doesn't
- have to wake up for simple things like screen refreshes; and you don't have
- to link together a new perl binary with special usersubs.
- It should be findable on archie; its "home" site is
- ftp.wu-wien.ac.at:pub/src/X11/wafe/wafe-whatever.tar.Z (whatever
- version.)
-