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Building Navigation Menus
Well-designed websites are easy to navigate, with sensible menus, breadcrumb trails, and the information you need within three clicks of where you are. Rather than tediously coding navigation structures by hand, why not consider using a Perl module to generate them for you? Shlomi Fish shows how to use his HTML::Widgets::NavMenu module.
Create Fancy On-Screen Displays with Ghosd and Perl
With recent advances in frameless transparent windows for Linux desktop now you can use Perl, Ghosd, and some network programming to display on-screen overlays of text and graphics based on messages from your local system and remote computers. Define custom images, font sizes, and colors to convey information integrated with your desktop.
Gtk-Perl Tutorial
This is a document describing how to use Gtk-Perl , which allows you to use the Gimp Toolkit (Gtk) , through its Perl , interface. This document was originally derived from the GTK+ Tutorial , written by Tony Gale and Ian Main
Making Menus with wxPerl
Perl's a great general-purpose programming language. wxWidgets is a powerful GUI toolkit that manages attractive, native widgets on multiple platforms. wxPerl is the combination, and it's easy to use, once you understand a few idioms. Roberto Alamos shows off everything you need to know to manage menus with wxPerl.
Test-Driving X11 GUIs
Interfaces to GUI applications like DCOP or D-BUS allow you to interact with GUI applications in order to get at their internal states or set some arbitrary states. Sometimes GUIs don't allow for such interaction and you need to "click" them. If you're writing such an application, you need some sort of regression tests for it to make sure your widget/windows are as accessible as they should be. If this is the case, there is a Perl module to help you: X11::GUITest.
Using advanced widgets in Perl/Tk
Perl is one of the most popular languages out there, and is
used for everything from mission-critical projects to Web
applications to "glue." It is not, however, often used for GUI
programming and prototyping. The author thinks it should be,
and you probably will too -- after this look at some of the
more complex widgets available for Perl/Tk.
Writing GUI Applications in Perl/Tk
In this article, I will introduce the basics of installing the Perl interpreter for Win32 and writing a visual application using the Tk (toolkit) modules.
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