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\author{Dmitry Karasik}
\title{Prima - the perl graphic toolkit}
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\chapter{Introduction}

\subsubsection{Preface}

Prima is an extensible Perl toolkit for multi-platform GUI development.
Platforms supported include Linux, Windows NT/9x/2K, OS/2 and UNIX/X11 
workstations (FreeBSD, IRIX, SunOS, Solaris and others).
The toolkit contains a rich set of standard widgets and has emphasis on 2D 
image processing tasks. A Perl program using PRIMA looks and behaves identically 
on X, Win32 and OS/2 PM.

The Prima project was started in 1997 in Protein Laboratory, Copenhagen,
by Anton Berezin, Dmitry Karasik, and Vadim Belman.

This document describes programming with Prima graphic toolkit, and is a
collection of manual pages of Prima application program interface ( API ),
written by D.Karasik, except Prima::IniFile and Prima::ScrollBar, written
by A.Berezin.

\subsubsection{Requirements}

Prima supports perl versions 5.004 and above. The recommended perl 
versions are 5.005 and above. In UNIX(tm) environments, Prima can use 
the following graphic libraries: libjpeg, libungif, libtiff, libpng, libXpm.

\subsubsection{Installation}

The toolkit can be downloaded from \texttt{http://www.prima.eu.org} in
source and binary forms. Before installing, check the content of README file
in the distribution. The installation from the source is performed by
executing commands
\begin{verbatim}
  perl Makefile.PL
  make
  make test
  make install
\end{verbatim}

There is a mailing list dedicated for various Prima-related discussions, 
prima@prima.eu.org. This list is also a proper place to send bug reports to. 
To subscribe to the list, send mail to \texttt{<majordomo@prima.eu.org>} and 
include \texttt{subscribe prima <optional address>} in the body of your message.

\subsubsection{Authors}

Dmitry Karasik,
Anton Berezin,
Vadim Belman

\subsubsection{Credits}

David Scott,
Kai Fiebach,
Johannes Blankenstein,
Teo Sankaro,
Mike Castle,
H.Merijn Brand,
Richard Morgan
-- thank you for your help.

\subsubsection{Copyright}

(c) 1997-2003 The Protein Laboratory, University of Copenhagen
(c) 1997-2007 Dmitry Karasik

