Perl 6 IUP

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Perl 6 interface to the IUP toolkit for building GUI's.

Description

IUP is a multi-platform toolkit for building graphical user interfaces. IUP's purpose is to allow a program source code to be compiled in different systems without any modification. Its main advantages are:

• It offers a simple API.

• High performance, due to the fact that it uses native interface elements.

• Fast learning by the user, due to the simplicity of its API.

Installation

Get the IUP library and install it:

mkdir libiup
cd libiup
curl -L https://sourceforge.net/projects/iup/files/3.25/Linux%20Libraries/iup-3.25_Linux44_64_lib.tar.gz > libiup.tar.gz
tar xvzf libiup.tar.gz
sudo bash install
sudo bash install_dev
cd ..

Install the Perl 6 module with Zef:

zef update
zef install IUP

Synopsis

WARNING:This module is in its early stages and should be considered a Work in Progress. The interface is not final and may change in the future.

Sample GUI:

Sample code:

use IUP;

my @argv = ("Test");

#
# initialize iup
#

my $iup = IUP.new();

$iup.image_lib_open();
$iup.open(@argv);

#
# create widgets and set their attributes
#

my $btn = $iup.button("&Ok", "");

$btn.set_callback("ACTION", &exit_callback);

$btn.set_attribute("IMAGE", "IUP_ActionOk");
$btn.set_attribute("EXPAND", "YES");
$btn.set_attribute("TIP", "Exit button");

my $lbl = $iup.label("Hello, world!");

my $vb = $iup.vbox($lbl, $btn);
$vb.set_attribute("MARGIN", "10x10");
$vb.set_attribute("GAP", "10");
$vb.set_attribute("ALIGNMENT", "ACENTER");

my $dlg = $iup.dialog($vb);
$dlg.set_attribute("TITLE", "Hello");

#
# Map widgets and show dialog
#

$dlg.show();

#
# Wait for user interaction
#

$iup.main_loop();

#
# Clean up
#

$dlg.destroy();
$iup.close();

exit();

sub exit_callback() returns Int {
	return IUP_CLOSE;
}

Author

Henrique Dias [email protected]

See Also

• Perl 6 IUP Module Documentation

• IUP Site

• IUP on SourceForge

License

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl 6 itself.