Re: Re: Re: Tk vs. wxPerl

[dree]

The above node Re: Tk vs. wxPerl is obviously IMVHO, so *for me* procedural programming is easy than OOP.

For example, *for me* is easier to write the hello world written in Tk

use strict;
use Tk;

my $mw = MainWindow->new( -height => 100, -width => 350);
$mw->title ("Hello, world!");
MainLoop;

than wx one:

use strict;
use Wx;


package MyApp;

use vars qw(@ISA);

@ISA = qw(Wx::App);

sub OnInit {
  my( $this ) = shift;

  my( $frame ) = MyFrame->new();

  $this->SetTopWindow( $frame );

  $frame->Show( 1 );
}


package MyFrame;

use vars qw(@ISA);

@ISA = qw(Wx::Frame);

sub new {
  my( $this ) = shift->SUPER::new( undef, -1, 'Hello, world!',
                                   [200,200] , [350, 100] );
  return $this;
}


package main;

my( $app ) = MyApp->new();
$app->MainLoop();

So IMVHO to programming wxPerl you have to know more Perl than to programming with Tk.

Documentation issue: Tk has 3 books from O'Reilly, several chapters inside other books (Advanced Perl Programming, Professional Perl Development, others?), 1 newsgroup with years of posts, searchable with groups.google.com or with www.peltk.org, years of development with tons of scripts aka large community.

wxPerl unfortunately has only a mailing list without a working search engine and few excellent tutorials.

But Perl/Tk is years old and wxPerl is young. This scenario is IMVHO the normality.

DLL issue: my dir command on win32 says those dimensions. Only this.

Update: fixed typos

[PodMaster]

use Wx qw[:everything];
*Wx::App::OnInit = sub {1};
my $a = Wx::App->new;
my $f = Wx::Frame->new( undef, -1, 'Hello, world!',
                                   [200,200] , [350, 100] );
$a->SetTopWindow($f);
$f->Show(1);
$a->MainLoop();
__END__

Books don't mean much (perl can be easily learned from POD, and why should learning a simple GUI framework require a book).

The wxWindows docs are plentiful and they are extremely clear, and the wxPerl version of them comes with Perl: notes, which explain any differences in the API.

The wxPerl mailing list does indeed have a search engine, even if you failed to see it (i do not just post links blindly, loook to your left here), and Mattia is very responsive (not many questions come up that are unanswereable by Mattia, and those that are, you just take straight to the wxWindows mailing lists).

update: wxPerl is less of a mystery than perlTk ever is/will be to anyone new to either.

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