Hi Johan, On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Johan Vromans <jvrom...@squirrel.nl> wrote: >> A year ago I wanted to experiment with wx and I first went to wxPerl. >> But the website gave me the impression that the project was largely >> unmaintained (e.g. most recent docs were many years old). > > wxPerl is alive and kicking, under full development and maintenance. > Okay, I agree the web site is a bit outdated... > ... > As you found out, it is rather trivial to use the official wxWidgets > docs for wxPerl.
I understand. It is impractical, and slightly pointless, to make a full API reference for wxPerl. In my opinion, what wxPerl really needs is: 1) Explain that you are supposed to read the C++ docs => DONE. Website does this already. 2) Give some guidance to how to do that => TODO. This is missing. 3) Give a short guide to get you started => INCOMPLETE. Mattia's tutorial is exactly what we need here, but it was never finished. Chapter 5 says "to be continued" and it was last updated in 2004. The good new here though is that wxPerl doesn't need that much more: (1) Write a half-page "guide to reading the Wx reference for wxPerl users". (2) Expand Mattia's tutorial with a few more chapters. Chapter 5 could introduce a couple more widgets (so far only buttons are introduced) and Chapter 6 can use sizers to make a basic layout. That would a reasonable introduction to wxPerl. Daniel. -- Intolerant people should be shot.
