Looking at XBasic will probably be a project for later this week.

Something valuable about Perl is the fact that it can send Windows information as if it had been entered using a keyboard and probably a mouse. And, it can also read key presses at several different levels within Windows. I believe it can even do that in such a way that Windows itself doesn't see the keystroke.

So, that lets me generate Perl programs that can run interactively. I use the up and down arrow keys etc. and the program changes the graphics display. It actually responds pretty fast though nothing near game speed.

Can XBasic send Windows information like that or read keystrokes? If not then Perl programs could do the actual keyboard and Windows interaction and exchange informaiton with the XBasic program through files. However, any modern program should be able to interactively read key presses etc.

How is it with graphics? Does it have its own library. And do its graphics displays work well with Windows? For instance, can you click on a button on the top right corner of the screen to get the display to expand to full screen as with standard Windows displays?

For a number of reasons I have never used the Perl graphics. Instead I have Perl tell Gnuplot to do the graphics. Gnuplot works quite well with Windows.