Re: [wxperl-users] wxDemo - AUI

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

On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:41:22 +0000
Mark Dootson <mar...@zn...> wrote:

  Hi,

> wxDemo using Wx built from CVS, Alien 0.28, wxWidgets2.8.2, wxMSW,
> MSVC6, Activeperl 820.
> 
> The wxAUI demo fails with:
> 
> variable is not of type Wx::Bitmap at
> c:/perl/site/lib/Wx/DemoModules/wxAUI.pm line 102.
> 
> I can make it work by changing the $icon constructor from
> 
> my $icon = Wx::GetWxPerlIcon;
> 
> To
> 
> my $icon = Wx::Bitmap->new(Wx::GetWxPerlIcon);

  Changed.
 
> but I'm really not sure why this is necessary (I thought anything that
> accepts a Wx::Bitmap will accept a Wx::Icon).

  Mostly.  Under GTK/Mac/Motif wxIcon derives from wxBitmap, and most
of the time there is a function overload to accept both icons and
bitmaps.  But not always.

Regards
Mattia