>> > Does the GUI look modern? >> It looks dated, but in my opinion it's a small price to pay for a GUI >> toolkit that works everywhere. I've learned a bit more about Tk and I >> believe that it would have been an almost equivalent toolkit choice >> (though I suspect the internals are not nearly as graceful), but its >> widgets look just as dated as Prima's. Gtk, Qt, and Wx are not viable >> due to the difficulty of CPAN installation (and for the case of Qt, >> lack of good Perl bindings). My hope is that if there is enough demand >> for new looking widgets, somebody will step up and implement a new set >> of widgets, possibly using the PDL drawing methods if the rendering >> gets more involved and they need greater speed. > > Now for the completely off-topic. Due to Prima widgets being implemented > competely in Perl, it would be relatively easy to develop a widget such that > it > works everywhere, but also it means that it would be rather hard to make Prima > look native on windows. >
Consistent everywhere is another goalpost, and if that's the easier one. One which can be done in such a way as to be easily installable is great. I think that's why Prima is getting this attention from the PDL community. If the consistent look can be made "modern" then all the better, but not of big importance. Good work David, Dmitry, and all the porters! Joel _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
