in reply to Re: wxPerl fails with a cryptic message: "variable is not of type Wx::Point"
in thread wxPerl fails with a cryptic message: "variable is not of type Wx::Point"
some thoughts I wrote down
but these also have the problem of being C++ documentation which will require interpretation.
But its not a lot of interpretation :) is it?
You know :) I've read a few wxwidgets examples, and I've never needed anything more than the two rules from my wxWidgets / wxPerl / wxGlade tutorial, basically
wxWidget to Wx::Widget , wxWidget( to Wx::Widget->new( s{wx([A-Z]\w+)(\()?}{"Wx::$1" .($2?"->new(":"")}ge; the constructor is called ->new
wxWidget foo means a $foo which is a Wx::Widget object
That's it. There is one more that comes up if you view the c++ examples, and its dot to arrow s{.}{->}g;
Ok, there are two more that everybody knows without trying, its ignore comments // /**/, usually taken care of by viewcvs if you're viewing online, or whatever syntax highlighting editor you're using offline
And ignore stuff in bold :) int *x, const wxPoint& pt
The only real issue I see, is that a lot of classes are stale
OTOH, take for example Wx/XS/Display.xsp its missing
int w() %code%{ RETVAL = THIS->w; %}; int h() %code%{ RETVAL = THIS->h; %}; int bpp() %code%{ RETVAL = THIS->bpp; %}; int refresh() %code%{ RETVAL = THIS->refresh; %};
Not a big deal, but this could be automated, much like the wxwidget docs are automated (now with more automation)
And there could be a wxPerlDocs distribution release, that uses File::ShareDir to package up a perl-ified version of the wxwidgets docs, that comes with a wxperldocs command that launches the docs in your favorite browser (mimeopen, openit )
update: http://svn.wxwidgets.org/svn/wx/wxWidgets/trunk/docs/doxygen/scripts/swig_tools.py
http://svn.wxwidgets.org/svn/wx/wxWidgets/trunk/docs/doxygen/
swigtools uses xml generated by doxygen to generate swig, swig can be used to generate perl bindings
without much work, perl-specific docs could be generated, missing member accessors could be exposed, missing methods could be exposed, missing classes could be exposed ...
http://sourceforge.net/p/wxperl/code/3445/tree/dist-tools/trunk/?? Its unclear how often these beginWxPerlOnly amendments are updated in wxWidgets docs
there is module_info but it doesn't work too well with Wx but these oneliners do :)
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Re^3: wxPerl fails with a cryptic message: "variable is not of type Wx::Point"
by jmlynesjr (Deacon) on Mar 10, 2013 at 02:32 UTC |