The GUI Loft

The GUI Loft is a powerful and easy-to-use WYSIWYG design tool (written in Perl) for designing Perl Win32::GUI Windows.

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The current release is: 0.25 -- 2004-11-03

The Win32::GUI module

The 0.0.558 version on the ActiveState PPM repository is waaay old. Get it from SourceForge and install before The GUI Loft
Loft_source.zip [~1400K] contains the entire source tree. The Perl Artistic License applies.
Loft_binary.zip [~3900K] is the end-user distribution, a freestanding PerlApp GUI application.

You don't need any particular modules installed to run the designer. PPM modules are included to run the Demo program

Documentation

User Manual
Programmer's Reference (a little sketchy)

Developer's Guide (for adding new controls)

FAQ
Release Changes

Support Mailing List

Win32::GUI starter kit

The Win32::GUI module (don't use the 0.0.558 version from ActiveState)
Win32::GUI FAQ and Howto
win32-gui-users mailing list Ask Win32::GUI related questions here
Other Win32::GUI controls/modules
- Laurent Rocher
(GUI) Windows Programming FAQ

Sample code

#Create a window designed in The GUI Loft
my $fileWindow = "dialogs\\password.gld";
my $objDesign = Win32::GUI::Loft::Design->newLoad($fileWindow) or die("Could not open window file ($fileWindow)");

my $winPassword = $objDesign->buildWindow() or die("Could not build window ($fileWindow)");

#From now on you can use $winPassword (a Win32::GUI::Window object)
#just as if you had created the Window with Win32::GUI code

Complete Demo program code (also included in both distributions)

Other Perl Win32 Applications

Perl Oasis

Perl Oasis is a code navigator; a POD/source/class browser tightly integrated with (currently) UltraEdit. It makes it easy to navigate source code, POD, modules and your files. It is a Win32::GUI application.

http://www.bahnhof.se/~johanl/perl/Oasis/

/Johan Lindström, e-mail: johanl bahnhof.se