Suggestions on a Simple GUI programming environment?
Jim
farli@wiredglobal.com
Mon, 11 Dec 2000 17:27:32 -0700
There are tons of GUI libs out there to make your life a bit easier. I
personally like Tkinter.
On Monday 11 December 2000 11:52, you 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.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Darryl Tang
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Jim