October2006Meeting

wxPerl: What I had to Learn the Hard Way

EricWilhelm talked about how to get started with the Perl bindings to the wxwidgets GUI toolkit. Eric has spent the last several months designing and building a large (7.5kLOC and growing in 62 modules) system complete with a comprehensive test suite, pluggable, reskinnable architecture, network-transparent connectivity, blah, blah, blah (ok, the blah part is done, but I'm still working on some of the other bits.)

• overview
• how cross platform is it?
• finding documentation
• installation on Windows, Mac, and Linux
• code generation with wxglade (or not)
• creating a sane object-oriented architecture while using an event-driven toolkit
• testing

Chris Dawson at WebCast in a Box is graciously hosting a podcast of this talk, which was recorded on his donated equipment.