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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