On Mon, 15 May 2006, David H. Adler wrote: > On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 03:37:08PM -0700, Jan Dubois wrote: > > You should be able to do this with the Tcl::Tk module: > > > > http://search.cpan.org/~vkon/Tcl-Tk/ > > > > The Tkx module provides a nice interface on top of Tcl::Tk: > > > > http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/Tkx/ > > > > I have not tried this on OS X though, so it is possible that the > > modules don't work out of the box there. > > I haven't checked lately, but it used to be that Perl/Tk wouldn't > compile on OS X unless you configured your perl a certain way. This > may have changed since I last looked, but be sure to look over the > docs if you hit any problems, as that might be it.
Tcl::Tk and Tkx don't use the Perl/Tk module; they call the Tcl/Tk code directly. That way you get access to the latest widgets supported by Tcl/Tk. Of course you need a working Tcl installation in addition to just Perl. We use this at ActiveState to create natively themed cross platform Perl applications for Windows, Linux, Solaris and HP-UX. I have heard from other people at ActiveState that they got this to work on OS X too, but I don't remember if they had to do anything special. Cheers, -Jan
