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Contents 1 General Wiki Questions 2 Some Other Topic 3 General wxPerl Questions 4 Canvas

General Wiki Questions

• What happened?
• I got r0xx0red by some newb from some lame irc channel who then got owned by some other guy whos bored
• Does anybody have any questions?
• Not yet, I guess... or do they? (Are we confused yet?)
• Is this how I ask a question? I guess so. My question is this: I am currently running Perl 5.6. What do I need to do to install wxPerl? I haven't found an answer to that anywhere, but I saw something that implied that if I get a newer version of Perl, the wxWindows/wxPerl stuff will be in there. Please excuse me if I'm asking a stupid question, asking it in the wrong way, or asking it in the wrong place.
• That depends on which Perl you have. For ActiveState Perl you can just go grab the appropriate PPM from the wxPerl homepage which proves much easier than building from CPAN. Otherwise you will probably need a GNU compiler+toolchain and/or a binary distribution of the WxWindows library for your platform. If you use Windows, from experience I would highly suggest using the PPM approach. ActiveState should probably have Wx in their PPM repository.
• Is anyone else having problems with wxPerl w/ wxGTK port on FreeBSD?
• A solution when compiling from CPAN on some platforms such as FreeBSD and MacOS X may be to do a: perl Makefile.PL --disable-stc --disable-xrc when using wxWindows-2.4.2 (or < 2.5.x).
• Ask a question here
• Answer here

Some Other Topic

• What is this topic for?
• It's to show that you can break out a group of questions if you want.
• Can I add other topics?
• Of course. You can also break questions into a different section of the FAQ, or merge together sections that are similar. The comands to do this are cut (shift-delete) and paste (shift-insert).

General wxPerl Questions

• Is it possible to munge the MainLoop() to my own purposes? Namely, to replace it with an integrated version that plays friendly with POE. Which from what I can see, would need some special dispensation to make wxPerl work with the cooperative multitasking that it uses.

Canvas

• How do I create a drawing program with wxPerl?

• To answer my own question :) download http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wxperl/wxPerl-0.12-samples.zip then run demo.pl in the demo-dir open Miscellanous, an run the printing demo. Voila.

• Look at http://darwin.cwru.edu/~pjacobs/ (scroll down). Is there any such thing for wxPerl?

• Yes and no. There is a GAMUT of modules for generation of grapics, 2d and otherwise, but as of yet, there is no funky little GUI frontend. If you know different, well edit this answer ;D