Hi James and Steve, I fully understand that you may not have a feel for the book right now. The design document is still very incomplete at this early stage.
I¹m using a top-down design approach for the book, which means I¹m focussing on the chapters rather than the chapter contents. At least that¹s my plan for now. Adopting a common style to describe each widget is definitely the intention. Once we have the complete list of chapters put together, then I think would be a good idea to ask people, who are willing to participate, to choose one or more chapters to work on. At the moment I envisage that the book will be grouped into 5 parts. 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. Advanced Topics Hopefully as I¹m adding to the design document, the full picture for the book will begin to emerge. Best Regards, Ron. On 17/01/16 8:15 AM, "James Lynes" <jmlyne...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ron: > > Nice work. > > I agree with Steve. I'd like to see a "standard" format used to describe each > widget. I'm not sure what that looks like at the moment. > > James > > > On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 3:47 PM, Steve Cookson - gmail > <steveco.1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Ron, >> >> This is very good. But I don't yet have a feel for what the book will look >> like. >> >> Is there any chance we could draft a few chapters? >> >> Why don't you ask the responders in this thread if they would like to draft >> something each. >> >> And I would like to, please give me a chapter draft. >> >> Maybe we can develop some style guidelines as we go. >> >> Thanks very much. >> >> Regards >> >> Steve >> >> >> On 16/01/16 14:28, Ron Grunwald wrote: >> >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I¹ve attached the updated versions of the book design documents for this >>> week. Notably, I¹ve added a third source column to reference material from >>> Herbert Breunung¹s wxPerl Tutorial series which was published in the german >>> Perl magazine ³$foo². >>> >>> For next week I hope to have all the widgets covered that I intend to >>> include in the book. My next step then is working out the details for >>> geometry management. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Ron. >>> >>> >>> On 12/01/16 10:33 PM, "Ron Grunwald" <ron...@yahoo.com.au >>> <http://ron...@yahoo.com.au> > wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Good evening all, >>>> >>>> I¹ve started to write a design document that I¹m hoping will lead me to a >>>> detailed and complete list of chapters that will be covered in the wxPerl >>>> book. I¹ve decided to focus on the widgets for now since they will >>>> constitute the majority of the book. >>>> >>>> The initial design document, in RTF format, and the exported HTML file are >>>> attached to give you insight into how I¹m approaching this. As this is a >>>> working document, I intend to send updated versions by the end of each >>>> week. Comments and/or suggestions are always most welcome. >>>> >>>> Kind Regards, >>>> ________________________________________ >>>> Ron Grunwald >>>> ron...@yahoo.com.au <http://ron...@yahoo.com.au> >>>> http://www.dvlcorner.org >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> > >
