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Custom GUI & XP Style Buttons
I have two questions:

How to make buttons look like XP buttons ?



How to make custom GUI's with background image and custom buttons ?



A link to reference on how to make this would be nice
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What toolkit are you using to create the GUI?
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TK, but i'll use any Win:GUI, Wx... doesn't matter as long as it gets the job done
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I was hoping some others would join the discussion, but most people here (including myself) use perl to write web applications or utilities rather than desktop applications.

My personal opinion is that perl doesn't interface with native C based GUI libraries that naturally. I don't use Tk for the reason you mentioned: it doesn't look native. The wxWindows modules have made pretty good effort to look native (see here) on each OS including Mac, but from my experience on Mac they still fall short in their behavior.

My advice would be to try the Win32::GUI tutorial first. It shouldn't take long to go through it, and see if you get the sort of results you want. I would expect that to be closest to native code, while the other solutions mean to be cross-platform.
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PerlQt is probably what you're looking for. Qt supports native controls of whatever OS you're running under + it also supports custom controls.
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