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Welcome to the GUIDeFATE wiki!

You know why you are here.

You want to create a modern application that runs on the Desktop....nothing fancy, but something you can wave a mouse at, and have it interact with it. You know about GUI design tools but don't want to learn another programming interface...it was difficult enough to learn Perl right?

But you don't know much about the underlying graphical toolkits. You want to visualise what your code is generating, rather than have line after line of code, modifying attributes of widgets, whose positions you are having to mentally scale to fit your window. Those things are easy. For clever people. But I am not clever, and if you feel the same way, then you might seek a simpler way of generating a GUI. Without using another tool.

Contents

1. Concept
2. Installation
3. Hello World: - Window and Static text
4. Buttons and Text Control
5. The Menu
6. Subpanels
7. Message Box
8. Dialog Boxes
9. Example programs
10. WebSocket Applications
11. Timers