Re: wxPerl

Hello Alexander,
> I would like to know who has allready experience with wxPerl?
after a promising talk by Herbert Breunung that was given at the German 
Perl Workshop this year (an (older?) version of the OO presentation (in 
German) can be found on this page: 
http://faq.perl-community.de/bin/view/User/HerbertBreunung) I tried out 
WxPerl with XRC (as suggested). I installed the modules 
(Alien::WxWidgets and Wx) for Strawberry Perl under Windows XP without 
real problems, used wxFormBuilder to compose XRC and was impressed by 
the results. So far, I built a tabbed notebook with several related 
controls (text fields, select boxes and checkboxs), with menu entries to 
open system dialogs for file loading and storage, some defaults 
settings, about boxes etc., all controls with tooltips and context help. 
This is certainly a rather small application (used to read, edit and 
write configuration files), but it shows the potential of this approach 
and requires not too much GUI related code. I am sure at the moment that 
I will sincerly consider to use wxPerl for future GUI projects. Some 
basic experience with a Windows GUI framework seems to help (I used OWL 
a few years ago), but I think it is not a precondition. Once you get the 
idea (and learned a few tricks) it is pretty straightforward, at least 
for the simple controls I used until now.

If you are interested in wxPerl, I strongly recommend to play with XRC 
(which is an XML description of the GUI resources that is generated by 
the GUI builder and can be used directly by the program).

Regards

                     Jochen