Re: How to use GUI

V S Rawat wrote:

It is in continuation of my Hindi to Unicode font
transliteration program that is successfully working in perl.

The program runs from msdos prompt. It reads a input file and
converts the contents to give an output file in utf8 encoding.

However, now I want to do away with dos part, and want it to
work under winxpsp2.

I want it to have a input text box in which I would paste the
contents from clipboard (text copied to clipboard from some
other software).

I will press a key to convert, and it should give me the
converted rtf8/unicode text in another text box which I should
be able to copy to clipboard to take to another software and
paste there.

I am totally nil in perl's GUI. I have used GUI in Java so I
guess I know some concepts.

Could someone guide me step by step as to which part of perldoc
to read, which sites to visit for samples/ source codes/
tutorials on GUI, etc?

Have activeperl 5.8.

It should be pretty easy to do this in Perl/Tk. Tk is a truly marvelous GUI package. If Perl/Tk isn't already installed on your system (I think it comes with current ActiveState distributions, but I'm not certain of that), use PPM to install it.

perldoc tk

Also see the book "Learning Perl/Tk" by Nancy Walsh, O'Reilly.

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