Re: Re: wxperl

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 19:00:04 -0800, Dean Arnold <darnold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  
wrote:
> Graciliano M. P. wrote:
> >  > hey all,
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> >
> <snip>
>
> If I might suggest...
>
> I think job #1 should be better/more/ANY usable documentation.
>
> After encountering some issues with Perl/Tk, I attempted to
> migrate an application to wxPerl...and rapidly encountered
> the biggest stumbling block: NO DOCUMENTATION! I tried
> reading the WxWidgets docs, but thats all C/C++ oriented, and I
> found that one of the widgets I was trying to use actually had a  
> different API in wxPerl than the wxWidgets docs listed.
> After fighting this problem for a few days, I gave up.
>
> wxWidgets/Perl/Python seems like a great GUI toolkit, but
> the dearth of usable documentation (at least for Perl)
> is a big issue. "Mastering Perl/Tk" has brought a huge
> number of people into the Perl/Tk community; I'd suggest
> that someone author a similar book for wxPerl. Or at least
> generate a complete and usable set of POD.
>
> If there's docs out there that I've overlooked, I'd appreciate
> someone pointing them out to me...
>
> Just my 2 cents,
> Dean Arnold
> Presicient Corp.
Hi,
I think the docs are very usable although they are not "perlish".
If you understand how to read and use the given information, the docs are  
very "clever".
I myself had also problems understanding the docs, and that is the problem  
new users are frighten off by the c styled docs. At least that's my  
opinion.
I think it would be very usefull to have some usefull starting points at  
http://search.cpan.org/~mbarbon/Wx-0.20/Wx.pm
and maybe some explanations on how to use the documentation that which is  
found on http://wxperl.sourceforge.net/download.html
Even some more links on where to start off would be usefull.

greetz & blessings
manu



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