Re: How to use GUI

Bob Walton wrote:

> 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.

Thanks for both the replies.

perldoc tk did present the help in dos mode on my box. Does it
mean that tk is already installed?

Could someone please jot down one or two line perl program for
me just to run to test whether tk is installed or not.

--
Rawat
.

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