--- On Thu, 1/15/09, Art Sackett <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Art Sackett <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: What tools / IDEs do you use?
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Thursday, January 15, 2009, 9:05 PM
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:28:33PM -0600, Jay Strauss wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm BRAND new to wxPerl. I've searched through
> the archives, and googled
> > around. I can't seem to find what IDE one might
> use to build a wxPerl app.
>
> I don't use an IDE, but I find wxGlade to be helpful
> for starting
> smaller GUIs. I think it sucks mightily, though, if
> you're building a
> larger app with, say, a relatively large number of notebook
> panes.
> wxGlade puts everything into a few subs that can become
> quite large.
>
> That said, wxGlade made it fairly easy for me to get my
> feet wet with
> wxPerl.
>
> My usual approach is to write the working code, the stuff
> that actually
> solves the problem(s), with a fairly generic API and test
> it thoroughly
> before putting the GUI on top of it. I'm one who likes
> to keep things
> nicely compartmentalized anyway, so this approach works
> very well for
> me.
>
> > I have a hard time believing you do the GUI layout in
> your code manually
> > with VI.
>
> I do it manually in XEmacs, actually. I hope that's
> more believable! :-)
>
> --
> Art Sackett
> http://www.artsackett.com/
Glade-like builder do not help much when one has many repeated items -
like, for example, sliders in audio equalizer.
The same builders hardly have an idea of what good scoping is.
IMHO such builders are good to quickly prototype widgets hierarchy, not to
build an actual complex application,
Regards,
Sergei.
