Re: [wxperl-users] wxperl on MacOSX

[Jouke V. <jo...@co...>]

It *should* be possible to port it to the Mac and I'd be delighted if
someone took the chance to try. Mattia is the one to answer it, but
since wxWindows itself is available for the Mac, wxPerl should be able
to be ported too.

Jouke
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 06:24:14AM +0100, Christian Jaeger wrote:
> 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.
> 
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