[wxperl-users] Example for XRC and frame

[Peter G. <pe...@pg...>]

Hi.

Does anyone have a simple example showing how to use wxPerl with XRC and
a frame.

I tried using the following as a test, but I can't get it to work. Can
someone give me some hints as to what is going wrong.

Thanks,

Peter

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<resource version="2.3.0.1" xmlns="http://www.wxwidgets.org/wxxrc">
    <object class="wxFrame" name="ID_FRAME" subclass="MyFrame">
        <style>wxCAPTION|wxRESIZE_BORDER|wxSYSTEM_MENU|
wxCLOSE_BOX</style>
        <size>400,300</size>
        <title>My Simple Test</title>
        <object class="wxBoxSizer">
            <orient>wxHORIZONTAL</orient>
            <object class="sizeritem">
                <flag>wxALIGN_CENTER_VERTICAL|wxALL|
wxADJUST_MINSIZE</flag>
                <border>5</border>
                <object class="wxStaticText" name="wxID_STATIC">
                    <label>Input</label>
                </object>
            </object>
            <object class="sizeritem">
                <flag>wxALIGN_CENTER_VERTICAL|wxALL</flag>
                <border>5</border>
                <object class="wxButton" name="ID_BUTTON1">
                    <label>Press Me...</label>
                </object>
            </object>
        </object>
    </object>
</resource>


#! /usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use Wx;

package MyApp;

use vars qw(@ISA);
use Wx::XRC ; 
@ISA = qw(Wx::App);

sub OnInit {
  my ($this) = shift;

  my $xrc = Wx::XmlResource->new();
  $xrc->InitAllHandlers();
  $xrc->Load("globalXRC");

  my ($frame) = MyFrame->new($xrc);
  $this->SetTopWindow($frame);
  $frame->Show(1);
}

package MyFrame;
use vars qw(@ISA);

@ISA = qw(Wx::Frame);

use Wx qw(:everything);

sub new {
  # new frame with no parent, id -1, title 'Hello, world!'
  my ($this) = shift->SUPER::new( undef, -1, 'Hello,
world!',wxDefaultPosition , [350, 100]);
  my $xrc = shift ;
  $this->{xrc} = $xrc ;
  $xrc->LoadFrame($this,'ID_FRAME') ; 
  return $this;
}

package main;

my ($app)  = MyApp->new();
$app->MainLoop()