1= Learning wxPerl and wxWidgets = 2 3For those like me (Gabor) who lack imagination here is an explanation of the stack. 4 5 * wxWidgets is the name of the C++ library that can be installed either by your operating systems package management tool ( aptitude install wx-common in case of Debian ) or by installing Alien::wxWidgets from CPAN 6 * [http://www.scintilla.org/ Scintilla] is an editor component written in C++ and used in many editors. It has been included in wxWidgets ad the STC or wxStyledTextCtrl. Padre 0.92 and later will use Wx::Scintilla instead of old Wx::STC to provide the latest and greatest from Scintilla. 7 * wxPerl is the name of the Perl binding to wxWidgets (or wrapper if you prefer that word) - It is packaged as the Wx distro on CPAN. Some of the recent Linux distros might also have. 8 * Above all that comes our code (Padre in our case) 9 10 11 12 13[http://wxperl.sourceforge.net/ Home of wxPerl] 14 15downloadable version: [http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wxperl/wxPerl-0.82-wx-2.8.7-docs-html.zip] 16 17[http://www.wxwidgets.org/ Home of wxWidgets] 18 19[http://wxperl.sourceforge.net/tutorial/tutorial.html tutorial of Mattia Barbon] 20 21[http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/09/12/wxtutorial1.html tutorial by Jouke Visser] 22 23STC or StyledTextCtrl is [http://www.scintilla.org/ Scintilla] 24 25[http://www.yellowbrain.com/stc/index.html Yellow Brain documentation of Wx::StyledTextCtrl] 26 27[http://wxruby.rubyforge.org/doc/styledtextctrl.html Ruby documentation of Wx::StyledTextCtrl] 28 29[http://docs.wxwidgets.org/trunk/classwx_styled_text_ctrl.html] 30 31 32[http://docs.wxwidgets.org/2.8.6/wx_stockitems.html#stockitems stock items in wx] 33 34[http://wxperl.pvoice.org/w/index.php/WxPerlTablet a kind of WxPerl cheat sheet] 35 36[http://use.perl.org/~Alias/journal/39642 Creating GUI code for Padre - A walk through a new feature] 37 38 39 * PerlMonks articles 40 * [http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=122227 wxPerl tutorial 3] 41 * [http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=112297 wxPerl Tutorial one :: The basics] 42 * [http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=152323 WxPerl woes -- putting a Tree into a ScrolledWindow] 43 * [http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=153366 XML with wxPerl] 44 * [http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=199840 HWXperl - The place for GUI apps in Perl] 45 * [http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=164341 WxBrowser - a wxPerl HTML Browser] 46 * [http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=290475 WxPerl Login Dialog] 47 * [http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=219778 Tk vs. wxPerl] 48 * [http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=807957 Using Icons on Wx::Notebook] 49 * [http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=758548 Using BoxSizer Layout Manager in wxPerl] 50 * [http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=638554 WxPerl Simplified] 51 * [http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=216762 RegexLab (a wxPerl version)] 52 * http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=184685 53 * http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=194611 54 * http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=287396 55 56= The latest versions of wxPerl, wxWidgets and Scintilla = 57 58 * Wx (aka wxPerl) latest is 0.89 release on Dec 6, 2008 http://search.cpan.org/dist/Wx/ 59 60 * Padre 0.90: Wx::Scintilla integration was added through feature_wx_scintilla 61 * Padre 0.92: Wx::Scintilla replaced Wx::STC completely. 62 * Wx::Scintilla 0.30 supports the Scintilla 2.29 (released on 16th September 2011) 63 * Wx::Scintilla 0.36 supports Scintilla 3.0.2. 64 65= Various Items and suggestions = 66 67See Wx-Perl-DirTree on CPAN 68 69