Online training

2016-02-04 Thread Steve Cookson
Hello Guys, I keep thinking how can we lower the barriers to wxPerl and increase its uptake. I wondered if some online training might be quite nice. I would like to try creating some online training videos, maybe we could upload them to youtube or somewhere. I wondered if anyone knew of any

Re: Future of wiki.wxperl.nl

2016-02-01 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
Hi Johan, On 01/02/16 13:34, Johan Vromans wrote: 27 days ago, the password forwxp...@gmail.com was changed. I no longer have access to this mailbox. What is wxp...@gmail.com? I should probably know this already. Regards Steve.

Re: Learning wxPerl - the book

2016-01-19 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi Guys, On 18/01/16 22:10, James Lynes wrote: I have no idea if all of the Member Functions that are listed in the wxWidgets HTML docs are actually wrapped. Does anybody know of unwrapped classes and or members. We might start to draw up a listr. Regards Steve.

Re: Learning wxPerl - the book

2016-01-19 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
Hi People, On 19/01/16 14:51, Meir Guttman wrote: 1. Shouldn't the name be “Part I - Introduction to GUI programming with wxPerl”? I agree. Maybe we don't want to take on the task of explaining GUI programming from scratch! 1. The equivalent of "Hello World", other than making sure

Re: Learning wxPerl - the book

2016-01-18 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
Hi Ron, Thanks for this. On 17/01/16 12:53, Ron Grunwald wrote: 1. Introduction to GUI programming and wxPerl 2. The wxPerl widgets (currently worked on in the design doc.) 3. Geometry management in wxPerl (to be worked on next in the design doc.) 4. Event handling in wxPerl 5.

Re: The wxPerl wrap (part1)

2016-01-18 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
Hi James, Do you know of a web version of this, sadly my copy of Perl Cookbook is still in storage after the move. Regards Steve On 17/01/16 15:01, James Lynes wrote: Steve: Your Part 1 is very close to the Perl Cookbook section 12.18 Using h2xs to Make a Module with C Code. I've

Re: The wxPerl wrap (part1)

2016-01-18 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
Hi David, Thanks very much, Steve. On 18/01/16 17:33, David Kaufman wrote: Hi Steve! On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 10:20 AM, Steve Cookson - gmail <steveco.1...@gmail.com> wrote: Do you know of a web version of this, sadly my copy of Perl Cookbook is still in storage after the move.

Re: wxPerl Infrastructure Support Issues

2016-01-14 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
ore people. The flavors of Perl and the Win/Mac/Linux platforms lead to a lot of combinations. I don't have a feel for the size of the wxPerl audience or the distribution of experience from beginner to package maintainer. James On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 2:31 AM, Steve Cookson - gmail

Re: wxPerl Infrastructure Support Issues

2016-01-12 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
Hi Mehmet, Thanks for your email. James' list does indeed look intimidating, but I hope once we start the momentum will build. Wx and Alien::Widgets are not abandoned, they are just under-resourced. Here is a list of recent updates at sourceforge:

Future of wiki.wxperl.nl

2016-01-09 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
Hi Johan, I think it's up to you now. We have a group of volunteers, 5 in all, and I think we should just start. They seem to be Me (Steve Cookson), James Lynes, Michael Roberts, Joseph Karwisch and Erik Colson. On 08/01/16 12:58, Joseph Karwisch wrote: Erik, Michael and James Regards

Re: wxPerl Infrastructure Support Issues

2016-01-09 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
Hi, Herbert seems to have put an entry for the book on the wiki anyway. I've updated the contents list with James' list here. http://wiki.wxperl.nl/WxPerlBook I've put the rest here. http://wiki.wxperl.nl/WxPerlRoadmap Regards Steve. On 09/01/16 01:04, James Lynes wrote: Until I can get

Re: wxPerl Infrastructure Support Issues

2016-01-09 Thread Steve Cookson
On 09/01/16 01:04, James Lynes wrote: Book Format(?) Ebook Wiki Printable(pdf) Tool(What's the currrent hot tool?) Other In fact I think the format should be all the above, but contribution and the working document should be the wiki, because it is

Re: Learning wxPerl - Table of Contents

2016-01-09 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi All, There also a wxPython book http://serv.yanchick.org/Books/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5/python/Manning.Publications.wxPython.in.Action.Mar.2006.pdf Maybe we can get some ideas from that too. That the wxPython google

Re: Future of wxperl.it

2016-01-08 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
test under Linux and Windows at the same time without even getting up from my chair. On 2016-01-07 11:03, Michael Roberts wrote: Ubuntu and Windows. On 2016-01-07 10:45, Steve Cookson wrote: Hi Guys, James' point is a very good one. What platform expertise do we have? James is Ubuntu 14.04LT

Re: Future of wxperl.it

2016-01-05 Thread Steve Cookson
Sorry, updated and re-sent. *** Hi Johan, On 04/01/16 11:05, Johan Vromans wrote: If Steve, Eric and James want to team up, you have my blessing and support. I would be honoured to be part of the team. This reply concerns wiki.wxperl.nl, not wxperl.it I have been a

Re: Future of wxperl.it

2016-01-04 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
k. Kind Regards. Ron Grunwald ron...@yahoo.com.au http://www.dvlcorner.org On 4/01/16 7:17 AM, "Steve Cookson - gmail" <steveco.1...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Guys, There is a lot of stuff on the wiki. (See here http:/

Re: Future of wxperl.it

2016-01-04 Thread Steve Cookson
Oh, sorry I just saw this. Eric, do you want to work with me and share this? Regards Steve. On 04/01/16 07:28, Erik Colson wrote: Johan Vromans writes: In the posting that started/renewed this thread I wrote that the wxPerl domains and wiki will get lost in the near

Re: Future of wxperl.it

2016-01-04 Thread Steve Cookson
Vromans wrote: On Sun, 03 Jan 2016 23:17:27 + Steve Cookson - gmail <steveco.1...@gmail.com> wrote: There is a lot of stuff on the wiki. (See here http://wiki.wxperl.nl/Main_Page). And here the circle closes... In the posting that started/renewed this thread I wrote that the wxPerl d

Re: Future of wxperl.it

2016-01-03 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
Hi Guys, There is a lot of stuff on the wiki. (See here http://wiki.wxperl.nl/Main_Page). How to structure a good wxPerl GUI? (Possibly an existing GUI design text) - Do you mean a development guide? I don't know of a good one. Herbert started to write one but I don't know

Re: Wx 0.9928 Released

2016-01-03 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
Hi Mark, Happy New Year. Great that you fixed this. Thanks very much. I looked at code and I didn't understand. It seems that you've added a wxTimer::Notify event. But I don't understand why this should cause a memory leak. Weird. Was there a problem with the undertlying wxWidgets as

Re: Future of wxperl.it

2016-01-02 Thread Steve Cookson
Hello Guys, Well I'm still here. For the last two years I've been hung up with supplier management and Brazilian importation. Plus we've just moved house in the UK and you may have noticed the annual festivities as well. However, New Year, New Year's resolutions! I care about wxPerl and

Re: How do you share an object(Telnet Sesion) between threads?

2015-10-01 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
Sorry, I forgot you were talking about communicating between threads. On 30/09/15 18:15, James Lynes wrote: The Monks said basically you can't do that. Not supported by threads::shared. Only references to shared scalers are supported. Possibly a convoluted way to manipulate object internals.

Re: How do you share an object(Telnet Sesion) between threads?

2015-09-30 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
Hi James, I'm not sure what you already know, but any OO-style module should be of the form $obj=Foo::Bar->new(); $obj is a pointer that holds the class and the object as the first two variables and you should be able to access anything from it. use Net::Telnet (); $obj =

Re: Async processing issue within an event handler

2015-09-29 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi James, (Whoops, forgot to copy list). On 28/09/15 16:15, James Lynes wrote: Your comment clicked. I see where a Timer will be the way to check my flags. I set mine up to run in: sub OnInit { # # Wx::Timers # # Start processing job queue $gl_media_control_available=0;

Re: Async processing issue within an event handler

2015-09-27 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi James, On 24/09/15 18:13, James Lynes wrote: Based on your comments I went and read the Perl Threads tutorial and searched Perl Monks for Wx and Threads(very little there). Also no working example on the wxPerl Wiki. I think Threads and Threads::Shared with lock() is the way to go. Now I

Re: Async processing issue within an event handler

2015-09-24 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi James, On 21/09/15 23:43, James Lynes wrote: I apologize for the length of this question in advance. Background: The July 2015 issue of Nuts and Volts magazine had an article on using an inexpensive DVB-T USB dongle along with a 24MHz upconverter as the basis for an HF and higher Software

On not repainting dialog boxes.

2015-09-10 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi People, I just thought I'd post this thought. I've variously been having problems with pieces of code if I run them too often (actually, it turned out that this was because I had created but not activated my swap file. Who'd have guessed?). Anyway in the course of trying to track this

Re: [rt.cpan.org #105468] 01-load.t: Can't locate Wx/Media.pm

2015-06-24 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi Oliver, Wx::Media.pm has a number of dependencies and I don't know if these are installed by cpan or not. These are : apt-get -y install libgconf2-dev libgtk2.0-dev # Needed as wxMediaCtrl dependency apt-get -y install libgstreamer0.10-dev

Re: Reloading a Bitmap

2015-06-17 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
Hi James, On 13/06/15 15:42, James Lynes wrote: In a script I am working on now, I need to do basically the same thing except in this case the PNG will be changing and the bimaps wil need to update also. How would i go about this? I believe -SetBitmap ($bitmap) will do the job.

Re: Combo and ClientData (was: RE: Help with Wx::Perl::PubSub)

2015-05-21 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
Hi François, On 21/05/15 04:31, RAPPAZ Francois wrote: Steve, Thanks for the example and the urls. I'm on W7 and I didn't want to install Python + wxPython, so I'm using wxFormBuilder to produce xrc files that I load with perl. The problem with xrc files is that they are not perl, so you

Re: Wx::Perl seems to be leaking memory

2015-05-21 Thread Steve Cookson
Hmm.., On 20/05/15 17:49, Steve Cookson - gmail wrote: If I create a few controls in a dialog, delete the dialog, use $app-Yield for the background processing to take place, I still end up with more Perl objects after the deletion than before. Well actually, although the count builds up

Re: Wx::Perl seems to be leaking memory

2015-05-21 Thread Steve Cookson
or call to an overridden 'Notify' method leaks 1 SV. I don't have a solution but will work on it over the weekend. Regards Mark On 21/05/2015 11:54, Steve Cookson wrote: Hmm.., On 20/05/15 17:49, Steve Cookson - gmail wrote: If I create a few controls in a dialog, delete the dialog, use $app

Re: Wx::Perl seems to be leaking memory

2015-05-20 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
On 14/05/15 15:24, Steve Cookson wrote: That has been a very painful lesson. We've now run over 60 video tests with no crashes, so I hope it is resolved. I spoke too soon: the crashes have just moved to a different part of the system. I've cut down a piece of code to try to isolate

Re: Help with Wx::Perl::PubSub

2015-05-19 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
Hi François, On 19/05/15 07:55, RAPPAZ Francois wrote: Another question: I would like to have a dropdbox that list usernames and that return a userid when one select a name. Shall I use a Wx::ListBox or Wx::ListCtrl ? Can you point me to some codes examples ? I would use wx::combobox (here:

Re: Wx::Perl seems to be leaking memory

2015-05-14 Thread Steve Cookson
handler to your Wx::Frame derived class and have the frame call $self-Destroy in your EVT_CLOSE handler. That way whenever a frame is closed, it will be properly deleted during idle time. Hope it helps. Mark On 11/05/2015 17:05, Steve Cookson wrote: Hi Mark, Thanks for this. So the short answer

Re: Help with Wx::Perl::PubSub

2015-05-14 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
Hi François, This is very interesting. I've not seen it before, what is it supposed to do to events and why is it better than the standard way of handling them? Regards Steve. On 12/05/15 09:29, RAPPAZ Francois wrote: I would like to bind a TextChanged event with a Wx::TextCtrl. I have

Wx::Perl seems to be leaking memory

2015-05-11 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi Guys, I started to talk about this on Perl Monks, you may have seen it here: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1125580 An anonymous monk posted some code that showed just about every call to Wx leaking a scalar or two. I've played about with the posted code and there is a copy attached

Re: Wx::Perl seems to be leaking memory

2015-05-11 Thread Steve Cookson
won't go away until the C++ structure is deleted - which will never happen until your event loop is running. Hope this helps. Mark On 11/05/2015 14:32, Steve Cookson wrote: Hi Guys, I started to talk about this on Perl Monks, you may have seen it here: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id

Re: Can you display a bitmap with/inside of a sizer?

2015-05-07 Thread Steve Cookson
sizer be a horzontal rather than vertical? Trying to make some sense of this sizer stuff. James PS: Did you find your memory leak? On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Steve Cookson steve.cook...@sca-uk.com mailto:steve.cook...@sca-uk.com wrote: Hi James, You want Wx

Re: [rt.cpan.org #104298] Wx can't be installed in Ubuntu 14.04

2015-05-07 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail via RT
Thu May 07 13:36:32 2015: Request 104298 was acted upon. Transaction: Correspondence added by steveco.1...@gmail.com Queue: Wx Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #104298] Wx can't be installed in Ubuntu 14.04 Broken in: (no value) Severity: (no value) Owner: Nobody Requestors:

Re: help with gif in XRC file

2015-05-04 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
Hi Francois, I don't recall the your installation was sooo painless! Is the .gif path correct? It looks kinda short. Steve. On 01/05/15 08:22, RAPPAZ Francois wrote: Hi I have upgrade to a recent strawberry and the installation of Wx was painless. The errors when the main frame close are

Re: Cann't Perl Build with wxWidget 3.0.2

2015-04-17 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi Francois, On 17/04/15 04:01, RAPPAZ Francois wrote: Is there a way I could successfully install Wx::Alien and telling him : use my standalone setup of wxWidgets, don't build your own ? There is a parameter (--prefix), which I don't use, but you can play with it. If you do a search on

Re: Cann't Perl Build with wxWidget 3.0.2

2015-04-17 Thread Steve Cookson
, Trivial Sample ); $frame-Show; $app-MainLoop; -Original Message- From: Steve Cookson [mailto:steve.cook...@sca-uk.com] Sent: vendredi, 17. avril 2015 09:42 To: RAPPAZ Francois; wxperl-users@perl.org Subject: Re: Cann't Perl Build with wxWidget 3.0.2 Hi Francois, On 17/04/15 04:01, RAPPAZ

Re: Cann't Perl Build with wxWidget 3.0.2

2015-04-16 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi Francois, I'm sorry your having such difficulties. I'm watching your progress with interest. Unfortunately I only use Linux, so I can't see what your seeing. Have you tried 3.0.1? Did that work? Maybe it could help you with this problem. Apparently the API is exactly the same. When

Re: [rt.cpan.org #103235] Support for TreeListCtrl-EnsureVisible(item)

2015-04-12 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
Hi Robert, The corresponding change in wxPerl would be to the file: TreeCtrl.xs in the wxPerl/XS directory. The syntax looks a little painful, maybe because of the history of wxTreeCtrl, but if you took the existing void function IsExpanded and copied it to create this: #if

Re: [rt.cpan.org #103129] build failure with wx 2.8 on Ubuntu 14.04: wxComboBox has no member RemoveSelection

2015-03-26 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
Hi Oliver, I haven’t seen this before. I guess it's to do with Perl 5.20, rather than wx2.8, which I also use: I'm still trying to complete my migration to the 3.0 branch! How did you install the Perl 5.20? I'll try to copy your install. regards Steve On 26/03/15 06:01, Olivier Mengué

Re: Clean Shutdown

2015-01-31 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
. Thanks for the sample code. James On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Steve Cookson - gmail steveco.1...@gmail.com mailto:steveco.1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi James, I've replied to the list as well because I feel it needs a bit of loving! On 28/01/15 18:23

Re: Clean Shutdown

2015-01-29 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
Hi James, I've replied to the list as well because I feel it needs a bit of loving! On 28/01/15 18:23, James Lynes wrote: Hi Steve: How's your project rollout going? Very kind of you to ask. The launch went very well, since then we have been dealing with the manufacturer and we are working

Re: Wx::Perl::Imagick

2015-01-20 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
Hi Garu, I haven't seen you since the SP YAPC. I hope you are well. We have all returned to the UK now. That Wx::Perl::Imagick advice was very nicely done. Good luck, Regards Steve. On 18/01/15 22:49, breno wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 6:47 PM, Daniel danielsw...@yahoo.de

Re: Wx::Perl::Imagick

2015-01-18 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
to check by typing perl -MImage::Magick -E1 on the command line and seeing if it doesn't complain about the module not being installed), I suggest you reinstall Wx::Perl::Imagick. Let us know how it goes! Cheers, garu On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Steve Cookson - gmail steveco.1

Re: Wx::Perl::Imagick

2015-01-14 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
Hi Daniel, It's a while since I used ImageMagick, although I have had it running in the past. I don't use Citrus, or indeed Windows, myself, but I know others here do. Is it a clean install? It sounds as if your problems are linked. Maybe if you looked into the first one, the second would

Re: Future of wxperl.it

2015-01-05 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
Thanks Mark, Nice job. Steve. On 05/01/15 18:11, mark.doot...@znix.com wrote: This message is to confirm the successful renewal of wxperl.it for 1 year(s). The new expiration date is 2016-03-03 22:59:59. On 2015-01-05 17:48, Alexander xb wrote: Who is maintaining it now? How much are the

Re: How to get the time_t value from a Wx::DateTime

2015-01-02 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
Hi Dave, GetTicks() returns the number of seconds since the start of 1970. It seems to be the same as GetTimeNow, but as you say, neither seem to be wrapped. However, Perl is so rich in various functions and as you don't seem to need any particular GUI control, I suggest you use something

Re: How to get the time_t value from a Wx::DateTime

2015-01-02 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
Ah, I didn't check the header file. I just looked at the main file. On 02/01/15 17:30, James Lynes wrote: For my own education, is this a problem of version? I ask because on my 3.0.1 system, I spent some time last night digging around and in wx/datetime.h I found:

Re: wxTreeListCtrl::DeleteAllItems crash

2014-12-08 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
Hi Sam, You may be right. But I found it a bit hard to test. Firstly, I didn't have this installed, so I had to install Wx::TreeListCtrl separately from CPAN. After I had fixed the variable on 4 redefines earlier object it crashes on my system with: Can't locate object method

Re: [rt.cpan.org #100550] Wx::ProgressDialog: missing methods

2014-12-03 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
Hi Oliver, I just went in to make these changes and saw that they were already there. If you just download wxPerl again it should work alright. Do you think that it doesn't? What are you seeing? All of: wxProgressDialog::GetRange() wxProgressDialog::GetValue()

Re: [rt.cpan.org #100550] Wx::ProgressDialog: missing methods

2014-12-03 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail via RT
Wed Dec 03 04:41:14 2014: Request 100550 was acted upon. Transaction: Correspondence added by steveco.1...@gmail.com Queue: Wx Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #100550] Wx::ProgressDialog: missing methods Broken in: 0.9923 Severity: Wishlist Owner: Nobody Requestors:

Post launch thanks

2014-11-30 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi Guys, After six years of graft and toil we have just launched our project i-Mage at a medical conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and I thought I would just write to you all to thank you for your support over the years. There were times when I thought we wouldn't make it. The system

Re: [rt.cpan.org #100550] Wx::ProgressDialog: missing methods

2014-11-26 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail via RT
Wed Nov 26 06:51:37 2014: Request 100550 was acted upon. Transaction: Correspondence added by steveco.1...@gmail.com Queue: Wx Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #100550] Wx::ProgressDialog: missing methods Broken in: 0.9923 Severity: Wishlist Owner: Nobody Requestors:

Re: [rt.cpan.org #100550] Wx::ProgressDialog: missing methods

2014-11-26 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
Hi Oliver, Thanks for this. If I make some patches, would you be able to test it? I've put some draft new code below (untested). It goes in wxPerl/XS/ProcessDialog.xs, at the end of the file. You can update the file and then cd xPerl make make install. I am travelling at the moment, but

Re: [rt.cpan.org #100550] Wx::ProgressDialog: missing methods

2014-11-26 Thread Steve Cookson
On 26/11/14 11:51, Steve Cookson - gmail via RT wrote: wxString wxProgressDialog::GetMessage() int value Actually, that should probably be wxString* wxProgressDialog::GetMessage() Sorry, Steve

Re: [rt.cpan.org #100550] Wx::ProgressDialog: missing methods

2014-11-26 Thread Steve Cookson via RT
...@cpan.org Status: open Ticket URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=100550 On 26/11/14 11:51, Steve Cookson - gmail via RT wrote: wxString wxProgressDialog::GetMessage() int value Actually, that should probably be wxString* wxProgressDialog::GetMessage() Sorry, Steve

FastSplash and WxPerl,beyond Frames and Buttons

2014-11-18 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi People, I was just look for something to replace SplashScreen, which I don't really like and it gives me errors when testing with Valgrind (If you haven't tried Valgrind, you really should valgrind perl foobar.pl) and I found this: http://lichtkind.de/vortrag/beyondwxp.pdf and I thought

Re: refresh+update on macosx

2014-11-12 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi Eric, On 11/11/14 21:18, Erik Colson wrote: Steve Cookson steve.cook...@sca-uk.com writes: What is your requirement? For this I don't want to let the user interact. I wan't the user to see what's happening by telling him in a log window (TextCtrl). So I don't want any user interaction

Re: refresh+update on macosx

2014-11-11 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi Eric, Other ideas ? Well I don't know what your requirement is, but I have quite a bit of background processing going on (eg playing a video in the foreground while taking photos and clips in the background, also any warnings are emailed electronically to me, any emails sent by the user

Re: wxTreeCtrl InsertItem Method

2014-11-07 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi James, On 05/11/14 21:30, James Lynes wrote: I couldn't find a method that returns an item's position under a node, so I wrote a sub to loop through all the children of a node and calculate the index(get_item_index). Surprised this function wasn't in wxWidgets. I'm sure we all write

Re: wxTreeCtrl InsertItem Method

2014-11-05 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi James, On 05/11/14 17:14, James Lynes wrote: I assume that you were looking in TreeCtrl.xs(I'm starting to see how/where things are done!) Yes. I see that InsertItemPrev needs two item pointers while InsertItemBef uses one pointer and one index. I'll give InsertItemBef a try, it's not

Re: wxDemo wxTreeCtrl demo

2014-11-03 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
Hi James, Interesting glitch. But it looks like a Native wxWidgets glitch not a wxPerl glitch. On 03/11/14 01:36, James Lynes wrote: Run the wxDemo TreeCtrl demo Background changes to red(selected) Rename the node Background stays red Mine is blue, so I guess it's dependent

Re: Install Script Feedback

2014-10-27 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi James, Firstly it's a really very cool script. The comments are excellent and I don't know that I can any longer claim authorship of it, I think you should put your own name and author and say something like: Based on a script provided by Steve Cookson or something. My script too would

Re: Install Script Feedback

2014-10-25 Thread Steve Cookson
the directories effected. The list I sent you before had been manually generated. Still working on logging options. James On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Steve Cookson steve.cook...@sca-uk.com mailto:steve.cook...@sca-uk.com wrote: On 23-10-2014 15:01, James Lynes wrote: This approach

Re: Install Script Feedback

2014-10-23 Thread Steve Cookson
to the screen. I am not a shell guru! I changed the find root directory and added a warning statement also. James On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Steve Cookson steve.cook...@sca-uk.com mailto:steve.cook...@sca-uk.com wrote: Hi James, On 20-10-2014 21:05, James Lynes wrote: I

Re: Install Script Feedback

2014-10-23 Thread Steve Cookson
On 23-10-2014 15:01, James Lynes wrote: This approach is probably safer than just the warning note that I put in, but the list of files to be deleted is 21 printed pages, so it may not be practical to have that scroll across the screen. You couldn't really review it. Could you not just

Re: Install Script Feedback

2014-10-22 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi James, On 22-10-2014 18:05, James Lynes wrote: So, now I have everything going to both the screen and the log file. If you know a better way, let me know. I'd rather not have all the compile stuff going to the screen. I am not a shell guru! I suspect there is some syntax, as there is in

Re: [rt.cpan.org #99607] Issue using wxTextEntryBox

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi Patrick, On 21-10-2014 00:52, Patrick via RT wrote: my $self = $ref-SUPER::new( undef, 1, 'Parent Window', Wx::wxDefaultPosition, [500, 500], ); my $panel = Wx::Panel-new( $self, 2 ); If you use -1 (or wxID_ANY) as the widget ID, it will assign the next free identifier. Then you don't have

Re: [rt.cpan.org #99607] Issue using wxTextEntryBox

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Cookson via RT
Tue Oct 21 04:00:48 2014: Request 99607 was acted upon. Transaction: Correspondence added by steve.cook...@sca-uk.com Queue: Wx Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #99607] Issue using wxTextEntryBox Broken in: (no value) Severity: (no value) Owner: Nobody Requestors:

Re: [rt.cpan.org #99607] Issue using wxTextEntryBox

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
Hi Eric, On 21-10-2014 09:20, Erik Colson via RT wrote: In conclusion: destroying $frame destroys $panel, but won't destroy $dialog, because it is_not_ the child of $panel. So, you are on your own to destroy the dialog with $dialog-Destroy; you can argue against this behaviour, but this is

Re: [rt.cpan.org #99607] Issue using wxTextEntryBox

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Cookson via RT
Tue Oct 21 15:43:41 2014: Request 99607 was acted upon. Transaction: Correspondence added by steve.cook...@sca-uk.com Queue: Wx Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #99607] Issue using wxTextEntryBox Broken in: (no value) Severity: (no value) Owner: Nobody Requestors:

Re: [rt.cpan.org #99607] Issue using wxTextEntryBox

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi Patrick, On 21-10-2014 17:06, Patrick via RT wrote: When I create a wxSingleChoiceDialog, that does show up as a child. Why is the handling of these two different? Well, the implementation of the wxSingleChoiceDialog is much more complicated. You can look in wxPerl::XS. Here

Re: [rt.cpan.org #99607] Issue using wxTextEntryBox

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
Hi Patrick, On 21-10-2014 21:16, Patrick via RT wrote: Thanks for the reply, Steve. I can see what you are saying. I have C and some slight C++ experience from years ago. It was just when OOP was starting to take off. I'd be glad to try to get oriented enough that I could make a little

Re: [rt.cpan.org #99607] Issue using wxTextEntryBox

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail via RT
Tue Oct 21 16:38:25 2014: Request 99607 was acted upon. Transaction: Correspondence added by steveco.1...@gmail.com Queue: Wx Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #99607] Issue using wxTextEntryBox Broken in: (no value) Severity: (no value) Owner: Nobody Requestors:

Re: wxTimer problem

2014-10-20 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi Eric, On 20-10-2014 06:37, Erik Colson wrote: I checked the archives and at first sight your prob is Windows related. Am I correct in this, or did you try Linux too ? The crash started a long time ago, but it was a compile problem on Kubuntu. I can try again to see if it is still there.

Re: wxperl: svn to git

2014-10-20 Thread Steve Cookson
we only have the validation of the Build.PL file. A much smaller task and less prone to error. What do you think? Regards Steve. On 19-10-2014 23:21, Erik Colson wrote: Steve Cookson steve.cook...@sca-uk.com writes: 3.0.1 - Does this conflict with Mark has applied? Did you look at Mark's

Re: Install Script Feedback

2014-10-20 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
Hi James, Thanks for putting it out there. And great response. My comments follow. Steve. On 20-10-2014 18:20, James Lynes wrote: I got the following feedback from posting the install script on Perl Monks. Any thoughts? Willing to keep it updated as needed. I see 3.0.2 is available.

Re: wxperl: svn to git

2014-10-19 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi Eric, Of course I'll send you wahtever you need. Just to clarify what I have done and which point you want the snapshot of, this is the process I used to update the repo: | git clone https://github.com/SteveBz/Alien-wxWidgets cd ~/Alien-wxWidgets # edit files to create 3.0.2 # (ie

Re: wxperl: svn to git

2014-10-19 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi Eric, On 19-10-2014 10:08, Erik Colson wrote: That is already too far :) What I need is your local copy you generated by: git svn clone http://svn.code.sf.net/p/wxperl/code/Alien-wxWidgets/trunk ~/tracking-Alien-wxWidgets Oh goodness, you mean when I first set up the repository? I've

Re: wxperl: svn to git

2014-10-19 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi Eric, On 19-10-2014 21:07, Erik Colson wrote: Hi Steve, I added your commits on the Development branch. I'm currently setting things up. No stuff should be lost. It sounds as though it is all done, but can I just go over them one at a time: I have three changes I think, and we should

Re: Native Language Dialogue boxes.

2014-10-18 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
just need to update the _T()'s in those. Actually, I'm thinking of getting rid of the Wx::HtmlHelpController anyway and writing my own. Regards Steve On 18-10-2014 13:14, Johan Vromans wrote: [Quoting Steve Cookson - gmail, on October 18 2014, 12:46, in Re: Native Language ] Thanks for taking

Re: Native Language Dialogue boxes.

2014-10-18 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
; } Regards Steve. On 17-10-2014 22:47, Johan Vromans wrote: Steve Cookson - gmail steveco.1...@gmail.com writes: Hi Johan, Thanks for this. On 17/10/14 12:22, Johan Vromans wrote: use Wx qw(wxLANGUAGE_DEFAULT wxLOCALE_LOAD_DEFAULT); my $local = Wx::Locale-new(wxLOCALE_LOAD_DEFAULT

richtextdialogs.pjd Translations

2014-10-18 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi Guys, I see that richtextdialogs.pjd does not have the _T() function. What is a .pjd file? It looks like some kind of xml. Does it use the xml resource handler? Is there some way to make this work for other languages, or do I have to go through and translate each description? Regards

Native Language Dialogue boxes.

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Cookson
Guys, Most of you must use wxPerl in some other language than English. How do you get all the dialogue boxes to have the correct language (Linux)? My native language is English, but I'm developing in Portuguese. When I switch the system language to Portuguese, some things switch (eg the days

Re: Native Language Dialogue boxes.

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
Great, I'll try it. On 17/10/14 12:22, Johan Vromans wrote: Steve Cookson steve.cook...@sca-uk.com writes: Most of you must use wxPerl in some other language than English. I do... My native language is English, but I'm developing in Portuguese. When I switch the system language

Re: Native Language Dialogue boxes.

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
Hi Johan, Thanks for this. On 17/10/14 12:22, Johan Vromans wrote: use Wx qw(wxLANGUAGE_DEFAULT wxLOCALE_LOAD_DEFAULT); my $local = Wx::Locale-new(wxLOCALE_LOAD_DEFAULT, wxLOCALE_LOAD_DEFAULT ); $local-AddCatalog(app); # replace with the appropriate catalog name I'm not sure

wxWidgets 3.0.2

2014-10-15 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi People, I saw that wxWidgets 3.0.2 came out last week. Although I'm still don't know how to do anything with windows, here is a quick hack if you are using Mac or Linux. I'll look into the windows side of things. Regards, Steve. cd ~ find /usr | grep -i wx | grep -v -i python | grep

Re: New Wiki users.

2014-10-11 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
Well, clearly the lesson here is don't trust PHP. Never would have happened with CGI Perl! Do we maintain this site? Steve. On 10/10/14 22:31, Johan Vromans wrote: Steve Cookson steve.cook...@sca-uk.com writes: If I log out of my account and request a new logon with this: http

Re: wxdemo programs

2014-10-11 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
Hi Herbert, Thanks for this. I ran it on my pc, but actually, it still asks for bitmaps that I don't have. I guess it's this code here: my $img_button = DI_Toolbar-new({ parent = $frame, ID_base = $leftid, checked = 1, radio_pos = 1, orient = 'vertical',

Re: wxdemo programs

2014-10-11 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
Hi Herbert, It's still not obvious to me how to download the icons. I think it would be better if you just used text buttons and didn't need icons at all, unless you use stock icons already available on every machine. Here are my errors. 18:53:33: can't open file

Re: New Wiki users.

2014-10-11 Thread Steve Cookson - gmail
Ok, looks good, works for me. http://wiki.wxperl.nl/Special:RequestAccount Thanks Johan. Steve. On 11/10/14 14:27, Johan Vromans wrote: Steve Cookson - gmail steveco.1...@gmail.com writes: Well, clearly the lesson here is don't trust PHP. Never would have happened with CGI Perl! :) Do

Re: Fwd: Updated script

2014-10-10 Thread Steve Cookson
version 0.22 (c) 2001-2011 Mattia Barbon wxPerl 0.9933, wxWidgets 3.0.1 Looks current. I don't have a wiki login and the request process doesn't seem to work. Can you post it? Or who can? Thanks, James On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Steve Cookson steve.cook...@sca-uk.com mailto:steve.cook

Re: Fwd: Updated script

2014-10-10 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi James, Thanks for all your effort on this. Regards Steve. On 10/10/14 17:07, James Lynes wrote: Great. Thanks. Hope it helps someone else. James On Oct 10, 2014 11:09 AM, Steve Cookson steve.cook...@sca-uk.com mailto:steve.cook...@sca-uk.com wrote: Ok, I have a login. I'll

New Wiki users.

2014-10-10 Thread Steve Cookson
Hi Guys, How to request a new user login. I noticed James had difficulty in getting one. If I log out of my account and request a new logon with this: http://wiki.wxperl.nl/Special:RequestAccount I get a blank page. What should happen here? Regards, Steve.

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