Re: [wxperl-users] Building wxPerl with wxWindows 2.3.1, and using XML resources

[Mattia B. <mb...@ds...>]

On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, James Lavery wrote:

>Hi All,
>I'm new to wxPerl and wxWindows, (but not to Perl...), and am a bit
>confused about a couple of things...
>
>I want to use XML resource files with wxPerl, and understand that this
>is only available with the 'unstable' 2.3.1 version of wxWindows.  I've
>downloaded and built this with no problems, into c:\wx2.3.1\wx23_1.dll.
>
>Three questions:
>
>1. How do I rebuild wxPerl to use this version of wxWindows?
>
>I've tried editing build\nmake.mak to change WXWIN to c:\wx2.3.1, and
I just do:
set WXDIR=c:\wx
set WXWIN=%WXDIR%
set PATH=%WXDIR%\lib

in a small batch file ( no need to modify build/* )

>rebuilding the makefile for wxPerl and remaking, but I get the errors:

>Controls.c(4498) : error C2039: 'SetString' : is not a member of
>'wxRadioBox'
>        c:\wx2.3.1\include\wx/msw/radiobox.h(25) : see declaration of
>'wxRadioBox'
>XS/RadioBox.xs(95) : error C2039: 'SetString' : is not a member of
>'wxRadioBox'
>        c:\wx2.3.1\include\wx/msw/radiobox.h(25) : see declaration of
>'wxRadioBox'
>NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cl' : return code '0x2'

This is fixed in the current CVs; the current cvs has many
other 2.3.1 problems solved, and is in a releaseable state
( I'll release it as soon as wxwindows 2.2.8 is out ); it is
available from wxperl.sf.net -> cvs snapshots

>2. Given that I get things going with wxWindows 2.3.1, can someone give
>me (or point me to) an overview of how to use XML-based resource files
>in wxPerl?

my $res = Wx::XmlResource->new;
$res->InitAllHandlers
$res->Load( 'file.xrc' );

nethods:

LoadMenu( name )
LoadMenuBar( name )
LoadToolBar( parent, name )
LoadDialog( parent, name )
// this populates an already created dialog
// ( useful for derived classes )
LoadOnDialog( dialog, parent, name )
LoadPanel( parent, name )
// for an already created panel
LoadOnPanel( panel, parent, name )
LoadFrame( frame, parent, name )
LoadBitmap( name )
LoadIcon( name )
// for external controls
AttachUnknownControl( name, control, parent = 0 )

for the format of the xml itself:
contrib/src/xrc/format.txt
contrib/samples/xrc/rc/*.xrc

are the only references

>3. Is there a  GUI designer available which will create resource files?
>I've looked at wxDesigner - is there another one included with
>wxWindows?
There is one written in Python ( using wxPython )
in
http://cvs.wxwindows.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/wxPython/tools/XRCed/

There is wxWorkshop ( but it is a beta, and not yet available in binary
form )
I personally write the perl code by hand, so i can't be of much
help here...

Hope this helps
Mattia