Re: [perl-win32-gui-hackers] State of the Docs

[Johan L. <jo...@Da...>]

At 15:15 2004-11-09, Jez White wrote:
>>The docs are not good, but better than nothing.
>>The situation with the samples which is much more important improved.
>
>The docs have been much improved - are you sure you have got the updated 
>versions? A while ago Steve and Laurent went through and updated or added 
>most (if not all) function, methods and events.
>
>The introduction, and tutorials could be improved though:)

I'm in the process of writing one, but it's not that near completion at the 
moment though.


>At the moment the samples are only included with the source - perhaps it's 
>worth including them with the binary too?

Most certainly, since most people will be using the PPM.


>Once V1 is built and on sourceforge, it would be a good idea to do a bit 
>of a 'marketing' blitz and hit the various newsgroups and websites 
>(perlmonks, activestate etc) and inform people that a new version is 
>available. How do we get V1 added to the activestate repositories?

I think they autobuild the PPMs on a regular basis, and the modules that 
pass their test suite are included.

So, if Win32::GUI builds on a "nmake test", it should replace 0.0.558.


>I'm also of the view that you can never have enough examples:) So perhaps 
>it's an idea to call for more examples, perhaps with a set of goals in 
>mind (a couple of examples per control, "advanced" concepts, full 
>applications etc )?

The purpose of my tutorial would be to demo a small but complete 
application with "best practices" of building and packaging a GUI app, 
while avoiding lots of globals, etc.

The alpha is at:
http://www.darserman.com/Perl/TglTutorial/

Including the original Word file if you want to add or change anything.


/J

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