On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:17 AM, Daniel Carrera <dcarr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > What is the best documentation resource to learn wxPerl? Everything I > can find is hugely out of date, and often poorly written: > > * The best tutorials are those from Mattia Barbon and Jouke Visser. > Together they cover only a small set of features, and they were last > updated 6 and 9 years ago respectively. > > * The three "tutorials" at PerlMonks, dating back to 2001, are > basically two program, and not well written. > > * I can't find much on the wiki. Apparently someone managed to delete > everything in the old wiki. Did this happen recently? > > > Can anyone suggest where I can learn wxPerl?
Your assessment of the state of WxPerl documentation is sadly accurate. I am working to document what I can about WxPerl for the wiki. So far, I have mostly been translating API documentation from the C++ wxWidgets site, but I plan on writing some tutorials in the near future. What sorts of tutorials would you like to see? Should I just update and modernize the old Mattia & Jouke tutorials, or is there a need for something beyond those? Here are some resources that I have found that may help. http://www.pnelsoncomposer.com/FAQs/wxWidgetsFAQ.html An old, but still somewhat useful, collection of newbie-oriented FAQs. Oriented toward C++ programmers. http://neume.sourceforge.net/sizerdemo/ A brief guide to using Sizers. C++, but easily applicable to Perl. http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=112816 An article on handling images in WxPerl. Old. http://www.wxpython.org/ The documentation for wxPython. It's depressingly excellent -- it blows anything wxPerl-oriented out of the water. I hope that the wxPerl community can strive for this level of quality. It is a useful class reference even for Perl programmers. http://docs.wxwidgets.org/trunk/page_class_cat.html Documentation for the bleeding-edge wxWidgets library. Much nicer than the docs for the "stable" library. I hope these are of some use to you (and anyone else). -- Eric
