[wxperl-users] wxperl on MacOSX

[Christian J. <chr...@sl...>]

Hello

I'm happy to find today the announcement of a wxwindows-perl 
interface in www.perl.com's newsletter. It could just be what I'm 
looking for: some perl gui for MacOS (9/)X. Tough I'm a bit in doubt 
whether wxperl will work on the mac (primarily MacOSX, MacOS9 would 
be cool too)?

I want to create a rather simple gui: create popup dialogs on top of 
the desktop (maybe floating windows). It's for a networked message 
application. It should pop up a window if it receives a message.

I've been thinking about porting the perl Mac::* toolbox modules to 
carbon, but wxperl seems much more comfortable and if I can save the 
porting work - even better.

One important thing that I'm not clear about is the event handling: 
I'm using nonblocking networking code (uses select() currently), so 
somehow I need either to get an event from wxwindows' event handler 
(?) or maybe will have to build an own event loop? Maybe as an ugly 
workaround solution short timeouts (~0.2sec) in both loops and then 
alternating them would be enough.

christian.