Re: New to Prima

Hi Mark,

some notes from a Prima user (hope not to start 'Yer Another Gui Flame').

I made the same question myself almost a couple of years ago,
among WxPerl, Perl-Tk and Prima I choosed the last one. Perl-Tk is
(obviously) tightly coupled with Tk
and I don't like that much the Tk philosophy, while Prima has a superior
OO design.
If you have to build quite a simple GUI you can go for a Tk
'try-and-error' technique, but having a
big task to cope with I better like to sit down and layer everything on
a nice class diagram and the Prima
toolkit is much linear and intuitive once you have a little knowledge of
its abstractions.

Morover the Visual Builder is very powerfull. There is also something
similar for Tk, but doesn't come with Tk
itself.

Last but not least, I used to develop on an Unix/Linux environment and I
didn't have any problems running Prima
applications under Windows (using either PxPerl or Vanillla/StrawberryPerl).

Bye,
Marco.

Mark Siner ha scritto:
> I am new to this list, so here is a short intro. I am a computer
> science graduate student at University of Arizona in the USA. I also
> work at IBM as a microcode programmer for enterprise storage servers.
> I have experience mainly in Java, C, and Perl.
>
> I was looking for Perl tookits and can't decide between focusing on Tk
> or Prima. Tk is definitely the standard, but with the death of Nick
> Ing-Simmons it seems like the future of the module is in jeopardy.
> Prima looks like a great package, but seems to be unknown among Perl
> users. Compared to Tk, I like how Prima is tightly integrated with
> Perl. What is the status of Prima and what plans are there for the
> future? Will Prima remain a niche toolkit for 2-D graphics or is the
> plan to compete with Tk for more mainstream usage?
>

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