[wplug] OT - Programming Languages

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Browser Refresh is annoying to the user.

Windows does have a GTK port, but it sucks.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Medley" <bpm-list-wplug at 4321.tv>
To: <wplug at wplug.org>
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 4:22 PM
Subject: Re: [wplug] OT - Programming Languages


> On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 03:20:37PM -0400, Chris wrote:
>
> > But if I do the GUI in perl for gtk, gtk2, wxperl, or perlqt then I
would
> > have to do a whole different GUI for the Windows platform, right?  I
really
> > don't want to write the GUI twice.  I was thinking about making it
>
> No, you would not have to do the gui portion twice.  I believe the gtk,
> gtk2, and wxperl libs have windows and linux ports.  I've never used them
> (in Windows) though.  perlqt does work if you don't mind using Qt 2.x.  I
> have used that and IIRC, it did work fairly well.
>
> > web-based, and then the client side doesn't matter.  The only problem is
> > that the browser would have to refresh at least every minute to show the
> > updated time for all the tanning beds.
>
> Why is a browser refresh a problem?  You don't want to tax the server?
>
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