Suggestions on a Simple GUI programming environment?

[Kevin Buettner]

On Dec 11, 11:52am, Darryl wrote:

> I'm writing a restaurant cash register application running under 
> Linux that I want to use in our Yoshi's Restaurants.  So far, I've 
> written the number crunching portion in Perl, which uses DBI to 
> interact with MySQL; works great so far, though at present it is a 
> command line based program.  The next step is to create a GUI that 
> makes it easy to use; ultimately I think I want a touch screen set up 
> or possibly some kind of keypad based system for data entry.
> 
> I haven't done any GUI programming yet, apart from some simple stuff 
> on Macs using MacPerl.  Does anyone have any suggestions on what I 
> should be thinking about using for the front end?  A text-type GUI 
> should be sufficient.  I've read about curses and am looking into it. 
> Also thought about using a browser with PHP, but I think there would 
> be too many potential problems with that set up.

If you're comfortable with Perl, why not use either the Tk or the GTK
interfaces?