Re[2]: [wxperl-users] wxPerl 0.23 Release Candidate

[Mattia B. <mat...@li...>]

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:30:03 -0700 Peter Riley <Pet...@ho...> wrote:

  Hello,

> mat...@li... wrote:
> > 
> >   The release candidate can be downloaded from
> > http://www.barbon.org/wxperl/0.23/;
> > 
> 
> Hello!  I downloaded the 0.23 release candidate builds
> and tried to run some of the 0.21 samples from
> wxPerl-0.21-samples.zip on it. I noticed a few weird
> things and figured I should report them.

  Thanks!

> Also, I should say that this is my first experience with
> the new world of wxWidgets 2.6 so please forgive me if I
> say or assume anything really stupid...

  Be assured that you did not.

> --
> 
> First, the listctrl.pl sample aborts with the error:
> "Error while autoloading 'Wx::wxEVT_COMMAND_LIST_GET_INFO'
> at C:/Perl/site/lib/Wx/Event.pm line 197"
> 
> I noticed that wxEVT_COMMAND_LIST_GET_INFO and also
> wxEVT_COMMAND_LIST_SET_INFO don't appear in any of the
> new bundled wxWidgets 2.6.1 DLLs, but they are in the
> old wxmsw242.dll/wxmsw242u.dll versions from 0.21 however.

  Correct. In reality the listctrl.pl sample should be deleted
since an equivalent sample is already in the demo. Scheduled for the
final 0.23...

> --
> 
> The toolbar sample also has some problems.  When you
> run toolbar.pl under 0.23, the first thing you notice is
> that the bitmap colors are now messed up. (Please see the
> attached screenshots. I noticed that this bitmap color
> problem also occurs on 0.23 in some of my own wxPerl
> apps that display bitmaps. They were OK on 0.21.)

  Probably a wxWidgets bug (I notice that the XPMs are
loaded OK on Windows). I will look in the archives...

> Also, the toolbar sample crashes on WinXP on 0.23 if
> you hover the mouse over any of the tool buttons to the
> right of the combobox. Oddly, it doesn't crash at all if
> you hover the mouse over the combobox itself or the tool
> buttons to the left of it. This behavior is consistently
> reproducible for me, 100%. This crash doesn't occur on
> 0.21.

  Known problem in wxWidgets 2.6.1 when compiled with MinGW,
I will fetch the patch directly (silly me for not noticing the
change went in *AFTER* 2.6.1)

> Also, the default font seems to have changed too.  No
> big deal, but it does alter the layout a little in some
> apps I have. You can see it best on the C,I,J,Q,S for
> example.

  Yes (from docs/changes.txt for 2.6.1):
- Now uses newer font MS Shell Dlg 2 if possible.

> On account of these things some applications look
> quite different on this 0.23 build compared to previous
> binary builds.

  This is the change from wxWidgets 2.4.2 to 2.6.1, and on the
whole is a change for the better. I know this will cause
some (hopefully minor) annoyances that can't be avoided.

Regards
Mattia