22. Are there any major applications written in perl/Tk?
Yes. In fact, there are some interesting perl/Tk applications already
available from:
Your own Tk-b# distibution:
The following programs may be found in your own Tk-b#/
directory:
program description
pfm perl file manager - cute iconic front to emacs
ptknews a GUI perl newsreader (Tk-b9.01) - a work in progress.
tkpsh perl/Tk equivalent of wish.
toyedit a Text widget editor.
The following programs may be found either in your demos
directory (consult the README file there for fuller descriptions) or
in your perl/bin install directory:
program description
browse Simple file browser front end for emacs.
color_editor Front end to Tk::ColorEditor
allows RGB, CMY, and HSV color cube manipulation
(based on tcolor.tcl).
ixset GUI front end to xset - for terminal settings.
pgs Perl front end to Ghostscript (for viewing PostScript(c) files).
rmt perl/Tk
"development shell/remote control application"
You can launch or talk to other perl/Tk apps with rmt.
rolodex Like the Tcl/Tk app of the same name.
Requires editing for personal use.
timer Stopwatch - like seconds timer.
tkpod The perl gui pod viewer (like xman).
tkweb The perl gui web browser.
Other perl/Tk application distributors:
- ptkb.pl
- an xbiff like mailbox watcher. Available from
ftp://ftp.wpi.edu/perl5/pTk-Modules/ptkb.pl
- bioTkperl
- Was announced
by Gregg Helt
<gregg@fruitfly.berkeley.edu>
recently. See the home page at:
http://www.cbil.upenn.edu/~dsearls/bioTk.html. Source at:
ftp://fruitfly.berkeley.edu/pub/bioTk/bioTkperl0.8.tar.gz
- EVA
- Hiroaki Kobayasi's EVA is a sophisticated wish like perl/Tk
"shell". It is available from:
ftp://ftp.sowa.is.uec.ac.jp/pub/Lang/perl5/Tk/eva-*.tar.gz
- plop
- Stephen Lidie's very useful arbitrary function Plot Program,
was featured in the premier issue of
The Perl Journal
and is available on the web at:
http://orwant.www.media.mit.edu/the_perl_journal/programs/Vol_1_Issue_1_Tk/plop
- Workspace
- Is an integrated front end to the fvwm window manager that makes use
of Perl/Tk. See the web page at
http://www.mirai.com/wks/
for more information.
- www
- The original 8 line wonder by Jon Orwant. Pick it up (and modify it) from:
http://sun20.ccd.bnl.gov/~ptk/archive/ptk.1995.08/0411.html.
(Please note: www is for amusement, the more serious perl/Tk browser - tkweb
- is distributed with Tk-b# and is "only" 60 lines long!.)
Be sure to also check the newsgroups
comp.lang.perl.tk,
comp.lang.perl.announce,
comp.lang.perl.misc,
and comp.lang.perl.modules,
as well as the mailing list archive
for more Perl/Tk program and package announcements.
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