Textual User Interfaces Text and Character-oriented user interfaces

Window Managers GUI window managers

See also Images and Graphics - Images and Graphics. Interactive edit, transform, et al.

See also Graphical Output - Generating Graphical output and images

See also: Textual User Interfaces Text and Character-oriented user interfaces

See also: Mouse and Pointer Interfaces

Up to User Interface - Gateway topic to presentation (like printing and graphics) and user interface routines. Textual User Interfaces Curses et al.

How can I use X or Tk with Perl?

See Also

Window Manager Icons - An efficient configurable icon distribution. {(L)GPL}

Tk::WindowManager - An MDI-like widget for Perl/Tk. {(L)GPL}

Other Applications and Utilities

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p5-PV-1.0 a perl5 library for text-mode user interface widgets

Image::Magick - The "PerlMagick" system provides an interface to ImageMagick, a package for interactive manipulation of images under X. [Perl] {oss}

Mac::Apps::PBar - A Process Bar application for the Macintosh. [Perl] {oss}

Sx - A front end to the Athena and Xlib toolkits for X window programming. Simpler than Perl/Tk, but not as fully featured. See the Tk module. [Perl] {oss}

Tk - Perl/Tk, the Perl interface to the Tk graphics programming toolkit. Tk lets you create X window applications with ease. (Your computer will need to be running X if you're to program with Perl/Tk.) The latest (and first non-beta) version of Perl/ [Perl] {oss}

LWP::TkIO - If you're using Tk (see the Tk module) and libwww simultaneously, you need the input/output functions defined in this module. Part of the libwww bundle. [Perl] {oss}

Tk::BLT::Table - A geometry manager for Tk. You'll want to be familiar with the Tk module first. [Perl] {oss}

Tk::FileDialog - A reusable Tk-widget login screen. Provides a configurable File Dialog widget. You'll want to be familiar with the Tk module first. [Perl] {oss}

Tk::JPEG - A JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group; an image format) loader for the Tk Photo image type. You'll want to be familiar with the Tk module first. [Perl] {oss}

Tk::SelFile - A Tk widget for choosing a file to read or write. You'll want to be familiar with the Tk module first. [Perl] {oss}

Tk::Text - Tk comes with a Text widget, but there's a drop-in replacement called "etext" which supports a new kind of text annotation called a block, and performs an object-oriented dump of its contents. See the "etext" directory inside the Tk directory. [Perl] {oss}

Tk::WaitBox - A "Please Wait..." Dialog widget for Tk. You'll want to be familiar with the Tk module first. [Perl] {oss}

X11::Fvwm - An interface to the Fvwm2 (an X window manager) API. [Perl] {oss}

X11::Protocol - Raw interface to X Window System servers. [Perl] {oss}

X11::Keysyms - X11 key symbols (translation of keysymdef.h from the X11 Window System distribution). [Perl] {oss}

X11::Auth - Read and handle X Window System ".Xauthority" files. [Perl] {oss}

X11::Xforms4Perl - A Perl interface to XForms, a GUI toolkit that lets you create X applications with a minimum of typing. [Perl] {oss}

Tcl::Tk - An interface to the Tk graphics environment via Tcl. This isn't used so much anymore now that Perl/Tk has been made completely independent of Tcl; use the Tk module instead unless you really prefer using Tcl. [Perl] {oss}

Other Libraries, Functions, and Components

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