Hi Mark,
From: Mark Dootson mark.doot...@znix.com
Subject: Re: installing an older version of WxPerl?
Hi,
On 03/04/2012 19:38, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
Hi,
Is it possible to install WxPerl 0.9701 under Windows using ppm?
The latest versions of WxPerl (0.9901) installed from WxPerl repository
doesn't work well with ActivePerl 5.10 because the multiline text fields
appear as password text fields, and I need to use ActivePerl 5.10.
This difference is almost certainly nothing to do with the wxPerl
version. It may be because of the wxWidgets version or build, I don't
know.
Oh, I thought that when installing WxPerl it requires by default the right
wxWIDGETS. When I'll reach home I will check to see what's the version of
wxWIDGETS installed.
Are you sure that it is password text? I'm thinking that maybe
there is a problem with multi-line text boxes + encoding handling so you
would get something character set dependent - on my machine that shows
as a lot of empty 'square' symbols.
Well, I am not sure. :-)
I have used a screen reader (JAWS) which reports that field as beeing password
field and it reads only stars in it. And I can't write anything in that field...
I doubt that building Wx version 0.9701 will help. Could you let me know
the following and I'll see if I can repeat the problem:
ActivePerl build number ( 1002 / 1007 etc)
ActivePerl build 1007
Windows version (XP, Vista, etc)
64 or 32 bit Windows
Windows XP Pro 32 bit
64 or 32 bit ActivePerl (you could have 32 bit AP on 64 bit machine)
32 bit ActivePerl
I will not be building any new ppms for Perl 5.10 ( or 5.8 for that
matter ) as Perl 5.16 looms near and I think you may find it difficult
to source community supported ppms for Perl 5.10 in particular.
I could have installed WxPerl with cpan, but I have never succeeded to do that
using the C compiler that comes with Active Perl's cpan...
The latest version of WxPerl from ActiveState's repository (0.9904)
doesn't work at all with ActivePerl 5.10 because it appears a fatal
error window without any helpful message.
I didn't think there were any regularly updated community available
ActiveState repositories for Perl 5.10 ? Perhaps there are. I assume you
don't have Perl 5.10.0 - it is 5.10.1 you have? Either way, the two are
not compatible so be sure you are pointing at the right repository.
I have 5.10.1 but I will check to see if I tried to install for 5.10.0. I doubt
this however, because I installed other modules from that repository and they
work fine, but... who knows, maybe those modules that work don't use XS code...
A recommendation for other Perl distribution is welcomed if they can be
used for creating Windows executables and COM components.
If you are interested in creating COM components, then I'm not aware of
any comparable solution to the PDK from ActiveState so you should stick
with that.
My advice, for what it is worth, is that you need to overcome whatever
it is stopping you using Perl 5.14 as using Perl 5.10 will present
greater and greater difficulties for you as time moves on.
Well, the difficulty is that only newer versions of PDK work with ActivePerl
5.14, and I need it to create a program which will be offered for free.
Otherwise... that program works very well with ActivePerl 5.14 and latest
WxPerl.
Thanks.
Octavian
